Self-organized Criticality in Living Systems

Preprint

27 January 1994

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.adap-org/9401001

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.

Keywords

CRITICALITY IN LIVING
BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
ORGANIZED CRITICAL
PHASE TRANSITIONS
LIVING SYSTEMS
COMPUTER CODE
REPLICATING
ENSEMBLES
SEGMENTS
MUTATION

All Related Versions

Version 1, 1994-01-27, ArXiv
Published version: Physics Letters A, 203 (1), 29.