tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446617232754011315.post4037600526719367633..comments2024-03-18T13:07:41.886+05:30Comments on The Vinod Wadhawan Blog: 82. Self-Organized CriticalityVinod Wadhawanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03806139017217746388noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446617232754011315.post-20530436624991196162013-06-11T16:23:52.115+05:302013-06-11T16:23:52.115+05:30Thanks Nick. I had thought of writing about Kauffm...Thanks Nick. I had thought of writing about Kauffman's idea of the 'adjacent possible', but then decided to keep things simple and brief. Kauffman had, in fact, proposed a fourth law of thermodynamics for self-constructing biospheres. This is what the law said: 'Autonomous agents will evolve such that causally local communities are on a generalized "subcritical-supracritical boundary" exhibiting a generalized self-organized critical average for the sustained expansion of the adjacent possible of the effective phase space of the community'.Vinod Wadhawanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03806139017217746388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446617232754011315.post-2515629650523592062013-06-11T06:45:47.708+05:302013-06-11T06:45:47.708+05:30good stuff. reminds me of the edge of criticality ...good stuff. reminds me of the edge of criticality found in evolutionary systems. power laws are found in extenctions and species radiative explosions as well. Kauffman defined natural systems as non predictive exploring possibility spaces. The trends are towards an increase in entropy producing capability phi(m) which gives them a Popperian propensity or trned..Nick Gogertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14564255432456707181noreply@blogger.com