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Computation at the edge of chaos: Phase transitions and emergent computation
Paper summary
Investigates cellular automata near transitions between ordered and chaotic behavior. The paper argues that these regimes can support information storage, transmission, and modification, connecting computational phenomena with dynamical phase transitions.
Relevance to the project
Suggests measuring persistence, perturbation propagation, and information transformation together when evaluating intrinsic activity. Compare regimes rather than assuming criticality is optimal.
This influential hypothesis is substrate-dependent and not a universal biological law.
Source record
- Reference ID
- doi-10-1016-0167-2789-90-90064-v
- Archived version
- Open-access submittedVersion located through OpenAlex; source checked at retrieval
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/doi-10-1016-0167-2789-90-90064-v/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.