2008/03/31 by Dante R. Chialvo, Chialvo, Dante R.
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Decision Sciences · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Complex Systems and Decision Making #Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC) #Origins and Evolution of Life #Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis #cond-mat.dis-nn #q-bio.NC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0804.0008
arxiv created 2008/03/31 · openalex publication_date 2008/03/31 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In these notes we review emergent phenomena in complex systems, emphasizing ways to identify potential underlying universal mechanisms that generates complexity. The discussion is centered around the emergence of collective behavior in dynamical systems when they are poised near a critical point of a phase transition, either by tuning or by self-organization. We then argue the rationale for our proposal that the brain is naturally poised near criticality reviewing recent results as well as the implications of this view of the functioning brain.