Collective Dissipative Structures, Force Flow Reciprocity, and the Foundations of Perception–Action Mutuality

Bari, Benjamin De; Kondepudi, Dilip K.; Kay, Bruce A.; Dixon, James A.

doi:10.1080/10407413.2020.1820337

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“…Third, the activity of each element must alter the shared field. We have elaborated on these properties elsewhere [ 43 ] in terms of both electrical and chemical forces and flows and review the coordinative phenomena that result from these physical processes.…”

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Functional Interdependence in Coupled Dissipative Structures: Physical Foundations of Biological Coordination

Bari

Paxton

Kondepudi

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Coordination within and between organisms is one of the most complex abilities of living systems, requiring the concerted regulation of many physiological constituents, and this complexity can be particularly difficult to explain by appealing to physics. A valuable framework for understanding biological coordination is the coordinative structure, a self-organized assembly of physiological elements that collectively performs a specific function. Coordinative structures are characterized by three properties: (1) multiple coupled components, (2) soft-assembly, and (3) functional organization. Coordinative structures have been hypothesized to be specific instantiations of dissipative structures, non-equilibrium, self-organized, physical systems exhibiting complex pattern formation in structure and behaviors. We pursued this hypothesis by testing for these three properties of coordinative structures in an electrically-driven dissipative structure. Our system demonstrates dynamic reorganization in response to functional perturbation, a behavior of coordinative structures called reciprocal compensation. Reciprocal compensation is corroborated by a dynamical systems model of the underlying physics. This coordinated activity of the system appears to derive from the system’s intrinsic end-directed behavior to maximize the rate of entropy production. The paper includes three primary components: (1) empirical data on emergent coordinated phenomena in a physical system, (2) computational simulations of this physical system, and (3) theoretical evaluation of the empirical and simulated results in the context of physics and the life sciences. This study reveals similarities between an electrically-driven dissipative structure that exhibits end-directed behavior and the goal-oriented behaviors of more complex living systems.

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Functional Interdependence in Coupled Dissipative Structures: Physical Foundations of Biological Coordination

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Kondepudi

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“…Moreover, we have suggested that as a spectrum and as a degree of the reciprocal information flow, interactions can be graded as more or less social. Interestingly, this quantitative approach as a function of information flow is also used for describing reciprocity in non-biological systems as well [ 19 ]. In humans, this type of referential communication and evidence for mechanisms that support this ability to infer the intentions of others and compare self and other can be seen from as early as two months of age [ 20 ].…”

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Reciprocity and alignment: quantifying coupling in dynamic interactions

Dumas

Fairhurst

2021

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Recent accounts of social cognition focus on how we do things together, suggesting that becoming aligned relies on a reciprocal exchange of information. The next step is to develop richer computational methods that quantify the degree of coupling and describe the nature of the information exchange. We put forward a definition of coupling, comparing it to related terminology and detail, available computational methods and the level of organization to which they pertain, presenting them as a hierarchy from weakest to richest forms of coupling. The rationale is that a temporally coherent link between two dynamical systems at the lowest level of organization sustains mutual adaptation and alignment at the highest level. Postulating that when we do things together, we do so dynamically over time and we argue that to determine and measure instances of true reciprocity in social exchanges is key. Along with this computationally rich definition of coupling, we present challenges for the field to be tackled by a diverse community working towards a dynamic account of social cognition.

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“…We have studied two dissipative structures, an electrical and a chemical system, which we classify as self-organized foraging implementations (SOFIs). Our electrical system (E-SOFI) produces an array of life-like properties, including foraging [ 25 , 26 , 27 , 31 ]), end-directed behavior [ 25 , 26 , 27 , 31 ], structure maintenance and self-healing [ 25 , 26 , 27 ], and even functional coordination [ 30 , 32 , 41 ]. The chemical system (C-SOFI) demonstrates flocking behavior [ 33 , 34 ] sensitivity to external thermal and magnetic fields [ 33 ], and collective navigation of environments [ 34 ].…”

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“…Critically, during the relaxation epoch, their activities are coordinated, suggesting that the trees co-regulate their motion to produce a behavioral state of increased REP. Trees constrained to behave as oscillators exhibit relative-phase coordinative modes characteristic of biological coupled oscillators [ 41 ], and can exhibit compensatory behaviors for a coupled partner that becomes constrained [ 32 ].…”

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“…Such external energy fields can bias the emergence of certain modes in multi-stable chemical dissipative structures [ 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 ]. In some systems it has been found that MEPP selects among multi-stable states [ 11 , 41 ]. Dissipative structures thus have an intrinsic context-dependence such that their development is rudimentarily adapted for the circumstances.…”

Section: Dissipative Structures and Evolutionmentioning

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Dissipative Structures, Organisms and Evolution

Kondepudi

Bari

Dixon

2020

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Self-organization in nonequilibrium systems has been known for over 50 years. Under nonequilibrium conditions, the state of a system can become unstable and a transition to an organized structure can occur. Such structures include oscillating chemical reactions and spatiotemporal patterns in chemical and other systems. Because entropy and free-energy dissipating irreversible processes generate and maintain these structures, these have been called dissipative structures. Our recent research revealed that some of these structures exhibit organism-like behavior, reinforcing the earlier expectation that the study of dissipative structures will provide insights into the nature of organisms and their origin. In this article, we summarize our study of organism-like behavior in electrically and chemically driven systems. The highly complex behavior of these systems shows the time evolution to states of higher entropy production. Using these systems as an example, we present some concepts that give us an understanding of biological organisms and their evolution.

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Collective Dissipative Structures, Force Flow Reciprocity, and the Foundations of Perception–Action Mutuality

Cited by 13 publications

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Functional Interdependence in Coupled Dissipative Structures: Physical Foundations of Biological Coordination

Functional Interdependence in Coupled Dissipative Structures: Physical Foundations of Biological Coordination

Reciprocity and alignment: quantifying coupling in dynamic interactions

Dissipative Structures, Organisms and Evolution

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