natural patternscomplex systemComplexity and entropy play crucial roles in understanding dynamic systems across various disciplines. Many intuitively perceive them as distinct measures and assume that they have
natural evolution of produced memes; this effect could be also linked to the overall decrease in memes production observed for this community. Interestingly, also paintings followed a similar trajectory in the entropy-complexity plane: quite localized along the entropy axis, but shifting towards higher...
The purpose of the journal is to advance the science of complexity. Articles may deal with such methodological themes as chaos, genetic algorithms, cellular automata, neural networks, and evolutionary game theory. Papers treating applications in any area of natural science or human endeavor are ...
Here we focused on static, 2D art such as paintings and digital drawings. However, there is no reason the same methodology could not be applied to quantify other visual media such as photographs, maps [11,17], websites [84] or natural patterns [27] to assess their aesthetic complexity (...
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Sample entropy (SampEn)17 can overcome this drawback and has been used commonly in entropy analysis of fMRI data5, 6, 18. As a universal and secular phenomenon, the aging process has been suggested to be a progressive loss of complexity within the dynamics of physiologic outputs19. This age...
and entropy required by the Second Law refers to closed equilibrium systems. Living systems are neither closed nor in equilibrium, but rather use an in,ow of energy to drive processes that increase their order (thus decreasing their entropy), and dissipate heat and other waste products that ...
A number of green growth definitions have been proposed. For example, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) states that “green growth means fostering economic growth and development while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services ...
[12]. Moreover, parallels with self-organization in the natural world are intriguing. There have been tentative suggestions that self-organizing structures in nature arise from optimizing various quantities related to entropy. This raises the possibility that aspects of social structure can be seen ...
Early theories of efficient coding suggested the visual system could compress the world by learning to represent features where information was concentrated, such as contours. This view was validated by the discovery that neurons in posterior visual cort