The physical origin of behaviour in biological organisms is distinct from those of non-living
systems in one significant way: organisms exhibit intentionality or goal-directed behaviour …

The place of living organisms in the natural world is a nearly perennial question in
philosophy and the sciences; how can inanimate matter yield animate beings? A dominant …

Self-organization in nonequilibrium systems has been known for over 50 years. Under
nonequilibrium conditions, the state of a system can become unstable and a transition to an …

Identifying the bidirectional coupling of bivariate time series is a basic problem in the
analysis of complex systems in contemporary science. As an intuitive statistical graphical …

In this paper, we discuss some well-known experimental observations on self-organization
in dissipative systems. The examples range from pure fluid flow, pattern selection in fluid …

Highlights•Self-sustenance, communication, and replication are observed in nonbiological
systems.•Every system requires a bidirectional exchange of information with the …

Over the past three decades, Van Gelder's dynamical hypothesis has been instrumental in
reconceptualizing the ways in which perception‐action‐cognition unfolds over time and in …

Introduction In the cognitive and behavioral sciences, there is an occasional tendency to
implicitly assume that only a central nervous system (CNS) can carry out cognition, while …

We discuss the thermodynamics behind self-organizing Benzoquinone (BQ) particles on air–
water interface. Experiments (Satterwhite-Warden et al., 2015; Chen et al., 2019; Satterwhite …

Previous work suggests that synergistic activity among motor elements implicated in force
production tasks underlies enhanced performance stability associated with visual feedback …