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Old December 29th, 2007, 05:07 PM
James Brody James Brody is offline
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Cool 2008 Could Be an Avalanche

Peter Csemerly (2006) explains that avalanches occur in loose organizations when there is no system flexibility: strong links such as those between you and your pet, your quest, or obsessions, take on ever-larger demands until they collapse. Weaker links that lead to multiple resources switch out of one relationship into another one and adsorb shocks.

Basic common sense happens in a computer simulation: As resources diminish, stress increases, and avalanches become more likely.

Such is probably true in obsessions that occur in paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder...a very few ideas dominate your thoughts. (I've compared these to Bose-Einstein condensates and it may be that very cold gas particles and clumps of neurons act in the same way (Bianconi, 2000, Bianconi & Barabasi, 2002; Brody, 2003, 2006, 2008).

Kuramoto (1984) proved that oscillators, no matter how many, move into synchrony if similarity and mutual influence exist between them.
Implication: if similarity and mutual influence lead to synchrony, then the excitability in a population will move into sync with that in a single mind. Hitler found an audience in the German population and helped members of that audience move into sync with each other. Holland's tulip madness in the 1730s was related to losses in the 30 Years War and to the Bubonic Plague. Al Gore, never a warm-fuzzy guy, now preaches internationally, leads millions, makes millions, and threatens a purification. (Irony: the United States never agreed to the Kyoto Protocols on carbon emissions, but the US and Sweden are the only two countries to reduce emissions: all other signatories have increased theirs!)

On the trucker side:
One seasoned driver called in to WLW and remarked about himself: "Being seven feet higher up does not make you king." He also groused about his wife who reads cookbooks five hours per day but can't cook. He confronted her, she responded: "If that's true, why do you watch all those porn sites?" Great lady! She also walked out the back door, fired her shotgun into the air, returned inside and explained to the family that Santa had just commited suicide!

Happy New Year!

References:

Brody, JF (2003) The Seeds of Leviathan: Networks & Genomes. Presentation at Association for Politics and Life Sciences, Philadelphia, PA. August 30.
Brody, JF (2006) Emergent Networks: Our Original Evolutionary Environment. (poster presentation, 32pp, 65 refs) International Society for Human Ethology, Detroit, July 30-August 3, 2006.
Brody, JF (2008, in press) Rebellion: Physics to Personal Will. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.
Csermely, Peter (2006) Weak Links: Stabilizers of Complex Systems from Proteins to Social Networks. NY: Springer.
Daniels, Bryan C. (2005) Synchronization of globally connected nonlinear oscillators: the rich behavior of the Kuramoto model. Physics Department: Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. (http://physics.owu.edu/StudentResear...els/index.html.)
Y. Kuramoto, Chemical Oscillations, Waves, and Turbulence (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1984). See also Strogatz, 2003; Daniels, 2005).
Strogatz, S. (2003) Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. NY: Hyperion.
WLW: AM700, Cincinnati. American Trucker Network. 12/27/07, about 4:45 A.M.
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