Criticality in brain\’s physics and mind dynamics

- By: Dante R. Chialvo, CONICET (Argentina) & UCLA (Los Angeles) - Date: 2011-07-26 15:00:00 - Description: It is well known that dynamical systems posed near a second order phase transition generate a bewildering variety of robust and flexible behavior, associated with the abundance of metastable states at the critical point. This universal feature led us to argue, since the last millennium, that the most fundamental cognitive properties of the functioning brain are only possible because it is spontaneousl