Self-organized Criticality in Living Systems
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2009-10-22 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
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Abstract
We suggest that ensembles of self-replicating entities such as biological systems naturally evolve into a self-organized critical state in which fluctuations, as well as waiting-times between phase transitions are distributed according to a 1/f power law. We demonstrate these concepts by analyzing a population of self-replicating strings (segments of computer-code) subject to mutation and survival of the fittest.
Cite
@article{arxiv.adap-org/9401001,
title = {Self-organized Criticality in Living Systems},
author = {C. Adami},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:adap-org/9401001},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 p., tar-compressed uuencoded postscript incl. figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett