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Integrated information as a common signature of dynamical and information-processing complexity
The apparent dichotomy between information-processing and dynamical approaches to complexity science forces researchers to choose between two diverging sets of tools and explanations, creating conflict and often hindering scientific progress. Nonetheless, given the shared theoretical goals between b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7614772/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35105139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0063384 |
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author | Mediano, Pedro A. M. Rosas, Fernando E. Farah, Juan Carlos Shanahan, Murray Bor, Daniel Barrett, Adam B. |
author_facet | Mediano, Pedro A. M. Rosas, Fernando E. Farah, Juan Carlos Shanahan, Murray Bor, Daniel Barrett, Adam B. |
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description | The apparent dichotomy between information-processing and dynamical approaches to complexity science forces researchers to choose between two diverging sets of tools and explanations, creating conflict and often hindering scientific progress. Nonetheless, given the shared theoretical goals between both approaches, it is reasonable to conjecture the existence of underlying common signatures that capture interesting behavior in both dynamical and information-processing systems. Here, we argue that a pragmatic use of integrated information theory (IIT), originally conceived in theoretical neuroscience, can provide a potential unifying framework to study complexity in general multivariate systems. By leveraging metrics put forward by the integrated information decomposition framework, our results reveal that integrated information can effectively capture surprisingly heterogeneous signatures of complexity—including metastability and criticality in networks of coupled oscillators as well as distributed computation and emergent stable particles in cellular automata—without relying on idiosyncratic, ad hoc criteria. These results show how an agnostic use of IIT can provide important steps toward bridging the gap between informational and dynamical approaches to complex systems. |
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spelling | pubmed-76147722023-07-18 Integrated information as a common signature of dynamical and information-processing complexity Mediano, Pedro A. M. Rosas, Fernando E. Farah, Juan Carlos Shanahan, Murray Bor, Daniel Barrett, Adam B. Chaos Article The apparent dichotomy between information-processing and dynamical approaches to complexity science forces researchers to choose between two diverging sets of tools and explanations, creating conflict and often hindering scientific progress. Nonetheless, given the shared theoretical goals between both approaches, it is reasonable to conjecture the existence of underlying common signatures that capture interesting behavior in both dynamical and information-processing systems. Here, we argue that a pragmatic use of integrated information theory (IIT), originally conceived in theoretical neuroscience, can provide a potential unifying framework to study complexity in general multivariate systems. By leveraging metrics put forward by the integrated information decomposition framework, our results reveal that integrated information can effectively capture surprisingly heterogeneous signatures of complexity—including metastability and criticality in networks of coupled oscillators as well as distributed computation and emergent stable particles in cellular automata—without relying on idiosyncratic, ad hoc criteria. These results show how an agnostic use of IIT can provide important steps toward bridging the gap between informational and dynamical approaches to complex systems. 2022-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7614772/ /pubmed/35105139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0063384 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) International license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ). |
spellingShingle | Article Mediano, Pedro A. M. Rosas, Fernando E. Farah, Juan Carlos Shanahan, Murray Bor, Daniel Barrett, Adam B. Integrated information as a common signature of dynamical and information-processing complexity |
title | Integrated information as a common signature of dynamical and information-processing complexity |
title_full | Integrated information as a common signature of dynamical and information-processing complexity |
title_fullStr | Integrated information as a common signature of dynamical and information-processing complexity |
title_full_unstemmed | Integrated information as a common signature of dynamical and information-processing complexity |
title_short | Integrated information as a common signature of dynamical and information-processing complexity |
title_sort | integrated information as a common signature of dynamical and information-processing complexity |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7614772/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35105139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0063384 |
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