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The Role of Chaos in Reliable Information Processing

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A problem of fundamental importance in the design of “self”-organizing systems is the “theoretical minimum” amount of hardware complexity (CH) necessary to drive a given functional repertoire (software complexity CS). In general it is assumed that the curve CH = f(CS) is a monotonically rising one with steepness depending on the specific “wiring mechanism” or the architecture of the given system. This conviction comes traditionally from the communication engineering practice where the act of information processing includes a sequence of an “expansion” and a “contraction” of the dimensionality of the state space, i.e., a proliferation and a subsequent compression of the degrees of freedom of the transmitted message.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    J. S. Nicolis

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  1. Institut für Physiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-2400, Lübeck, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Erol Başar

  2. Abteilung Neurobiologie, Universität Bremen, NW 2, D-2800, Bremen 33, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Hans Flohr

  3. Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57/IV, D-7000, Stuttgart 80, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Hermann Haken

  4. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    Arnold J. Mandell

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Nicolis, J.S. (1983). The Role of Chaos in Reliable Information Processing. In: Başar, E., Flohr, H., Haken, H., Mandell, A.J. (eds) Synergetics of the Brain. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69421-9_25

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