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In order to qualify as a complex adaptive system, a system, whether internet, economy, ant society or brain, has to fulfill two criteria (Amaral, Diaz-Guilera, Moreira, Goldberger, & Lipsitz, 2004). It needs to have a small world topology and has to embed noise (Amaral et al., 2004). The reason for these criteria relates to the adaptiveness of the system. Systems can basically be topologically structured in three ways (Bullmore & Sporns, 2012) (Fig. 7.1): at one extreme the structure can have a lattice or regular topology, which means that every stimulus will always result in exactly the same processing, as the structure of the network is regular. At the other extreme a system can be random, which is inefficient as every stimulus will have a completely random outcome, which is not beneficial. An intermediate structure has a small world topology, which permits flexibility and adaptation to changing environments through variability. The brain is noisy, but the noise is structured, generally following a power law distribution (Buzsaki & Mizuseki, 2014). This means that it has memory, and can carry information, in contrast to white noise (Keshner, 1982). Thus, such a system can learn,

Author

Dirk De Ridder; Theresia Stöckl; Wing Tin To; Berthold Langguth; Sven Vanneste

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2017

Language

EN