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self-organized criticality

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self-organized criticality [‚self ¦ȯr·gə‚nīzd ‚krid·ə′kal·əd·ē]
(physics)
Property of a system that persistently operates far from equilibrium, at or near a threshold of instability, having evolved automatically to this critical state independently of external fields.


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Due to these characteristics, self-organized criticality is intuitively attractive as a model for brain functions such as perception and action, because it would allow us to switch quickly between mental states in order to respond to changing environmental conditions," said co-author Manfred Kitzbichler.
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It would seem that a complexity theory formalism can accurately describe both ambiguity and vagueness: Language can be construed as a self-organizing network, replete with self-organized criticality.
 
 
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