Portland State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Portland, 97201, OR, USA.
Biosystems. 2022 Aug;218:104693. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2022.104693. Epub 2022 May 14.
Does biological computation happen at some sort of "edge of chaos", a dynamical regime somewhere between order and chaos? And if so, is this a fundamental principle that underlies self-organization, evolution, and complex natural and artificial systems that are subjected to adaptation? In this article, we will review the literature on the fundamental principles of computation in natural and artificial systems at the "edge of chaos". The term was coined by Norman Packard in the late 1980s. Since then, the concept of "adaptation to the edge of chaos" was demonstrated and investigated in many fields where both simple and complex systems receive some sort of feedback. Besides reviewing both historic and recent literature, we will also review critical voices of the concept.
生物计算是否发生在某种“混沌边缘”，即介于有序和混沌之间的动力学状态？如果是这样，那么这是否是一个基本原理，它是自组织、进化以及适应的复杂自然和人工系统的基础？在本文中，我们将回顾关于自然和人工系统在“混沌边缘”的基本计算原理的文献。这个术语是由诺曼·帕卡德（Norman Packard）在 20 世纪 80 年代末创造的。从那时起，“适应混沌边缘”的概念在许多领域得到了证明和研究，在这些领域中，简单和复杂系统都受到某种反馈的影响。除了回顾历史和近期文献外，我们还将回顾该概念的批评声音。
