Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability
We propose a social model of spontaneous self-organization generating criticality and resilience, called Self-Organized Temporal Criticality (SOTC). The criticality-induced long-range correlation favors the societal benefit and can be interpreted as the social system becoming cognizant of the fact t...
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| description | We propose a social model of spontaneous self-organization generating criticality and resilience, called Self-Organized Temporal Criticality (SOTC). The criticality-induced long-range correlation favors the societal benefit and can be interpreted as the social system becoming cognizant of the fact that altruism generates societal benefit. We show that when the spontaneous bottom-up emergence of altruism is replaced by a top-down process, mimicking the leadership of an elite, the crucial events favoring the system’s resilience are turned into collapses, corresponding to the falls of the leading elites. We also show with numerical simulation that the top-down SOTC lacks the resilience of the bottom-up SOTC. We propose this theoretical model to contribute to the mathematical foundation of theoretical sociology illustrated in 1901 by Pareto to explain the rise and fall of elites. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-80c6bbf15d44415f980c46f82f0ebe042025-02-03T05:58:39ZengWileyComplexity1076-27871099-05262018-01-01201810.1155/2018/81390588139058Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down VulnerabilityKorosh Mahmoodi0Bruce J. West1Paolo Grigolini2Center for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USAInformation Science Directorate, Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC, USACenter for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USAWe propose a social model of spontaneous self-organization generating criticality and resilience, called Self-Organized Temporal Criticality (SOTC). The criticality-induced long-range correlation favors the societal benefit and can be interpreted as the social system becoming cognizant of the fact that altruism generates societal benefit. We show that when the spontaneous bottom-up emergence of altruism is replaced by a top-down process, mimicking the leadership of an elite, the crucial events favoring the system’s resilience are turned into collapses, corresponding to the falls of the leading elites. We also show with numerical simulation that the top-down SOTC lacks the resilience of the bottom-up SOTC. We propose this theoretical model to contribute to the mathematical foundation of theoretical sociology illustrated in 1901 by Pareto to explain the rise and fall of elites.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/8139058 |
| spellingShingle | Korosh Mahmoodi Bruce J. West Paolo Grigolini Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability Complexity |
| title | Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability |
| title_full | Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability |
| title_fullStr | Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability |
| title_full_unstemmed | Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability |
| title_short | Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability |
| title_sort | self organized temporal criticality bottom up resilience versus top down vulnerability |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/8139058 |
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