I admit I didn't read the article so maybe I don't understand the comparison but I'd say that City Highway Networks aren't made without any master planner. In cities the highway system is expanded over time, it's not all built at once before use but each time any major expansion of the existing system is made there is a lot of master planning involved, far more than most people realize. voluntarily sell. Not only are they planning how to implement the new expansion but they also have to factor into that future expansions because eventually the existing expansion will need expanding.
Also. doesn't brain pathways work based on the most efficient route? I can tell you "most efficient" is rarely a factor in planning and expanding of city highway systems.
Issue is, How does it happen that all these cities conform to the same scaling law that applies over several orders of magnitude? It’s not because they follow the scaling law. The scaling law emerges from hundreds of cities individually locally master-planning. Same goes for evolution: genes in your head master plan your brain. But the scaling laws — law-like patterns we find across brains varying many of orders of magnitude in size — emerge from natural selection processes
I admit I didn't read the article so maybe I don't understand the comparison but I'd say that City Highway Networks aren't made without any master planner. In cities the highway system is expanded over time, it's not all built at once before use but each time any major expansion of the existing system is made there is a lot of master planning involved, far more than most people realize. voluntarily sell. Not only are they planning how to implement the new expansion but they also have to factor into that future expansions because eventually the existing expansion will need expanding.
Also. doesn't brain pathways work based on the most efficient route? I can tell you "most efficient" is rarely a factor in planning and expanding of city highway systems.
Issue is, How does it happen that all these cities conform to the same scaling law that applies over several orders of magnitude? It’s not because they follow the scaling law. The scaling law emerges from hundreds of cities individually locally master-planning. Same goes for evolution: genes in your head master plan your brain. But the scaling laws — law-like patterns we find across brains varying many of orders of magnitude in size — emerge from natural selection processes