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Emergent scale-free networks
Christopher W. Lynn, Caroline M. Holmes, Stephanie E. Palmer
Many complex systems--from social and communication networks to biological networks and the Internet--are thought to exhibit scale-free structure. However, prevailing explanations…
Curiosity as filling, compressing, and reconfiguring knowledge networks
Shubhankar P. Patankar, Dale Zhou, Christopher W. Lynn +6
Due to the significant role that curiosity plays in our lives, several theoretical constructs, such as the information gap theory and compression progress theory, have sought to ex…
Emergence of local irreversibility in complex interacting systems
Christopher W. Lynn, Caroline M. Holmes, William Bialek +1
Living systems are fundamentally irreversible, breaking detailed balance and establishing an arrow of time. But how does the evident arrow of time for a whole system arise from the…