In contrast to the critical brain hypothesis in which the brain tunes itself to a critical point between states of chaos and order, analysis of Coordination Dynamics suggests that a vast repertoire of coexistingtendencies exists for regions of the brain to integrate and segregate at the same time. Rather than teetering between order and randomness, the brain~mind lives in an immense sea of metastability where it can create functional information.
@article{arxiv.2303.04146,
title = {The Critical Brain Hypothesis? Meet The Metastable Brain~Mind},
author = {J. A. Scott Kelso},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.04146},
year = {2023}
}