The Cortex and the Critical Point: Understanding the Power of Emergence Beggs John M.
The Cortex and the Critical Point: Understanding the Power of Emergence Beggs John M. How the cerebral cortex operates near a critical phase transition point for optimum performance.Individual…
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The Cortex and the Critical Point: Understanding the Power of Emergence Beggs John M.
How the cerebral cortex operates near a critical phase transition point for optimum performance.Individual neurons have limited computational powers, but when they work together, it is almost like magic. This happens near the critical point: when neurons are poised between a phase where activity is damped and a phase where it is amplified, where information processing is optimized, and complex emergent activity patterns arise. Firing synchronously and then breaking off to improvise by themselves, they can be paradoxically both independent and interdependent.
In this book John Beggs--one of the pioneers of this hypothesis--offers an introduction to the critical point and its relevance to the brain.Drawing on recent experimental evidence, The claim that neurons in the cortex work best when they operate near the critical point is known as the criticality hypothesis.
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