Scientific Reports (Mar 2024)

Complexity synchronization in emergent intelligence

  • Korosh Mahmoodi,
  • Scott E. Kerick,
  • Piotr J. Franaszczuk,
  • Thomas D. Parsons,
  • Paolo Grigolini,
  • Bruce J. West

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57384-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Abstract In this work, we use a simple multi-agent-based-model (MABM) of a social network, implementing selfish algorithm (SA) agents, to create an adaptive environment and show, using a modified diffusion entropy analysis (DEA), that the mutual-adaptive interaction between the parts of such a network manifests complexity synchronization (CS). CS has been shown to exist by processing simultaneously measured time series from among organ-networks (ONs) of the brain (neurophysiology), lungs (respiration), and heart (cardiovascular reactivity) and to be explained theoretically as a synchronization of the multifractal dimension (MFD) scaling parameters characterizing each time series. Herein, we find the same kind of CS in the emergent intelligence of groups formed in a self-organized social interaction without macroscopic control but with biased self-interest between two groups of agents playing an anti-coordination game. This computational result strongly suggests the existence of the same CS in real-world social phenomena and in human–machine interactions as that found empirically in ONs.

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