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The Rhythm of Life: Conclusion

The document discusses biological rhythms and animal gaits. It explains that many rhythms in nature operate like oscillators that repeat cycles automatically. Animals have default motion patterns called gaits that they use for locomotion at different speeds without cognitive control. Horses for example walk at moderate speeds, trot faster, and gallop fastest, with some including an additional canter gait. Central pattern generators in the brain control rhythms and transitions between gaits. Symmetry is also important, with faster speeds destroying more symmetry in an animal's gait. Mathematics can reveal patterns in nature not normally viewed as mathematical, like nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory.

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The Rhythm of Life: Conclusion

The document discusses biological rhythms and animal gaits. It explains that many rhythms in nature operate like oscillators that repeat cycles automatically. Animals have default motion patterns called gaits that they use for locomotion at different speeds without cognitive control. Horses for example walk at moderate speeds, trot faster, and gallop fastest, with some including an additional canter gait. Central pattern generators in the brain control rhythms and transitions between gaits. Symmetry is also important, with faster speeds destroying more symmetry in an animal's gait. Mathematics can reveal patterns in nature not normally viewed as mathematical, like nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory.

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Chapter 7

THE RHYTHM OF LIFE


Many of the rhythms of nature are like a heartbeat: they look for themselves, run 'in the
background.' Others are like breathing, there's a basic 'default' pattern that works when nothing
unexpected occurs, but also a more advanced control system that may kick in when required.
Controllable rhythms of this type are very frequent and especially fascinating locomotives. In
legged animals, the default motion patterns which occur when cognitive control does not work
are known as gaits. The organizing idea underlying many of these biological cycles is the
mathematical notion of an oscillator-a unit that repeats the same behavioral cycle in its natural
dynamics.
Some animals have just one rhythmic default pattern to move their extremities. For
example, the elephant can only walk whereas other animals have various gaits. Take, for
example, the horse. Horses walk at moderate speeds, trot at higher speeds, and then gallop at
high speeds. Some people put an additional movement, a canter, between a trot and a gallop. The
dynamics of CPGs are used to change gaits (Central Pattern Generator). The fundamental
concept behind the CPG models is that animal gaits' rhythm and phase interaction are controlled
by the natural pattern of oscillation of relatively simple brain circuits. Symmetry also organizes
potential transitions between gaits. The quicker the animal travels, the lower its symmetry:
greater speed destroys more symmetry.
The rhythms of nature are frequently associated with symmetry and that patterns that
occur may be quantitatively categorized by invoking the general rules of breaking the symmetry.
Mathematics may reveal many elements of nature that we usually do not consider to be
mathematical. Non-linear dynamics is one of the most fascinating new fields of mathematics,
often called chaos theory. It creates a revolution in the way we think about order and unrest, law,
opportunity, predictability, and unpredictability.

Conclusion

Mathematics is indeed around us. We might comprehend a lot about ourselves, from
simple identifying the patterns of our surrounds, living and non-living objects, to more complex
building of formulae and hypotheses. Due to the existence of mathematics, this helped to develop
science and to build various types of tools to be able to know about the celestial bodies and the
size of the universe. Without these mathematical theories, formulas, laws or even those
influential scientists, we may not be able to collect answers for unknown things or for literally
things there, and we may not be able to appreciate most or more about the secrets, mysteries, and
clues to our nature and all about ourselves.

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