Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Why life is complex and -most importantly -what is the origin of the over abundance of complexity in nature?This is a fundamental scientific question which, paraphrasing the late Per Bak, "is screaming to be answered but seldom is even being asked".In this article, we review recent attempts across several scales to understand the origins of complex biological problems from the perspective of critical phenomena.To illustrate the approach, three cases are discussed, namely the large scale brain dynamics, the characterization of spontaneous fluctuations of proteins, and the physiological complexity of the cell mitochondria network.
Source: Acta Physica Polonica B
Author: D.R. Chialvo
Language: English
Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Award: G5059846171
OpenAlex ID: W2898482574