What if criticality is not the driver of plasticity โ but its consequence?
Plasticity, operationalized through a network-based approach, is proposed to act as a tuning parameter for the critical regime, with criticality emerging along the gradient of plasticity.
๐ arxiv.org/abs/2603.25180
Can plasticity -a systemโs capacity for change- be quantified before change occurs?
Plasticity is here formalized as a priori network quantity, reframing it as a prospective, predictive tool for complex systems
Comments welcome
๐ arxiv.org/abs/2603.25180
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it sounds as the Laplacian demon might be at play here ๐น
-- what's missing might be downward causation, the influence of higher-level organizational dynamics on lower-level processes within the system
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