“You’ve got randomness, and you’ve got order. And right between them, you’ve got the phase transition. “The idea is, you want to get as close as possible to chaos, but you don’t want to go into the chaos. You want to be on the edge, on the safe side. Research involves these avalanche behaviors in networks of neurons. These have been documented at small scales encompassing a few hundred or thousand cells, and also in large-scale, across-the-brain activity in organisms as disparate as roundworms and humans. It’s been proposed that these criticalities may underlie cognition — the extraordinary dynamics of memory formation and sensory integration and on-the-fly processing A phase transition is the transformation of a thermodynamic system from one phase or state of matter to another. https://youtube/watch?v=sSrYIfMMoRw
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