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Tom Morgan & Brett Andersen — Intimations of a New World Worldview (EP.139)
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0.6 Self-Organized Criticality in the Brain
Self-organized criticality has become an important concept in neuroscience. In biology, the theoretical case has been made that biological systems function optimally at criticality. This is true and there are also empirical studies which have found that systems in nature are actually functioning at or near criticality. So it's both biologically and psychologically optimal.
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