fractal theory

A very intriguing concept I came across is that of fractals - a term newly coined by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in 20th century, which is defined as a complex geometrical pattern which is surprisingly formed by the continuous repetition of very simple sub-patterns. What amused be about fractals is how it could be analogized to serve as a possible explanation for the nature of reality. Stephen Wolfram - a computer scientist and physicist, who authored a book called ‘A New Kind of Science’, theorizes that reality is essentially a computing process where certain simple rules are just continuously being repeated with time which ultimately gives rise to the complex entireness of reality which we experience presently, much similar to a fractal. By this explanation, reality is essentially a forward branching tree with highly increasing complexity where each sub-branching follows a very simple rule of updating itself producing a simple system within itself but an immensely complex system as a whole where the final outcome is not predictable. When we observe reality, we come across a variety of diverse and asymmetrical outcomes in the form of matter, species, geography, ideologies etc. But among these diverse outcomes, we observe commonalities that still exist in the form of what appears to be the laws of physics. A fractal as a whole is a complex pattern but if we zoom in sufficiently at any point on the fractal, we can always observe the simple elemental sub-pattern that initiated the fractal. Parallels of this can be observed in nature in many areas : diverse organisms while complex end up having the same biological architecture in the form DNA code being executed by ribosomes to produce proteins resulting in functioning organs, the prefrontal cortex which is the arguably most sophisticated constituent responsible for intelligence is also fractal of sorts where simple pattern modules (PRM) are repeated over and over resulting in complex intelligence, the possibility of scientific method where we are able to formulate mathematical equations to predict physical phenomenon which work consistently across the world enabling all of the engineering we see in the present. This begs many questions : why do the laws of physics exist? why does the scientific method happen to work? why do so many diverse outcomes exist the way they do while always being bounded by certain universal rules? This creates a very interesting viewpoint about what could be the purpose of reality where reality could ultimately just be an experiment being run which was programmed at the dawn of time with a simple set of rules presumably rules somewhat equivalent to the laws of physics (which appear to be fine-tuned to make existence possible) allowed to continuously iterate with time and branch out to produce what we see presently as the complex fractals of reality. Organisms, human intelligence, consciousness and technology are ultimately different incremental and unplanned outcomes of the program produced at different iterations with time with each increasing iteration with time allowing for more computing i.e. further branching of the fractal of reality to produce more diverse and complex outcomes within the experiment.