Pawel Romanczuk (Science of Intelligence), “Is intelligence critical? Can magnets teach us anything about brains and swarms?”
Abstract: More than three decades ago, it was proposed that certain natural systems can be viewed as self-organized critical systems, which self-tune themselves to special regions in parameter space close to so-called critical points, where the behavior of a system exhibits a qualitative change at the macroscopic scale, i.e. it undergoes a phase transition. Over