Complexity Thoughts: Issue #2
Unraveling complexity: building knowledge, one paper at a time
Bio-Inspired Computing
Designing neural networks through neuroevolution | Nature Machine Intelligence
Neuroevolution accounts for evolutionary algorithms to optimize neural networks, taking inspiration from how empirical connectomes are the byproduct of evolutionary processes. It provides alternative to deep learning.
Making computer chips act more like brain cells | Knowable Magazine
Flexible organic circuits that mimic biological neurons could increase processing speed and might someday hook right into your head
Climate Change, Health & Human Behavior
Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios | PNAS
A perspective on why we should care more about the potential cascading effect of climate change, that could affect our system of systems as a whole.
Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks | Nature
A foundational network paper, worth reading, about the fragility of our systems.
Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk | Nature
Global warming is driving changes in climate and ecosystems. In this paper it is analyzed what this could mean for spillover events (and therefore potential pandemics), by linking climate change with the increased risk of infectious diseases.
Climate change and human behaviour | Nature Human Behavior
This is a whole special issue, jointly with Nature Climate Change. I didn’t read all the papers in the issue, but the overall aim is very interesting:
“Climate change is an immense challenge. Human behaviour is crucial in climate change mitigation, and in tackling the arising consequences. In this joint Focus issue between Nature Climate Change and Nature Human Behaviour, we take a closer look at the role of human behaviour in the climate crisis”
Incorporating human behaviour into Earth system modelling | Nature Human Behavior
Human behavior (risk perception, behavioral response, etc) is widely underlooked in our projections of climate. Incorporating these effects, beyond the inclusion of human activities, might be game-changing. After all, the overall system consists of both humans and environment…
Network Neuroscience
The quest for multiscale brain modeling | Trends in Neurosciences
The human brain can be characterized at multiple spatial and temporal scales, in structure, dynamics and function. This review provides a global picture about what we know on the multiscale organization of the brain.
Network Medicine
Biological aging of human body and brain systems | medRXiv
What's aging? Is it due to just one sub-system of the human body? This paper reveals the multisystem nature of human aging, although the cardiovascular system seems to have a prominent role.
Book of the week
Complexity Science: The Study of Emergence
By Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
