Functional Interdependence in Coupled Dissipative Structures: Physical Foundations of Biological Coordination.

Benjamin De Bari, Alexandra Paxton, Dilip K Kondepudi, Bruce A Kay, James A Dixon

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

The Dynamical Hypothesis in Situ: Challenges and Opportunities for a Dynamical Social Approach to Interpersonal Coordination.Topics in cognitive science · 2026
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The origin and development of life in an informational dissipative perspective.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2026
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5 authors.

Benjamin De BariCenter for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7894-7849

Alexandra PaxtonCenter for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8603-015X

Dilip K KondepudiCenter for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.

Bruce A KayCenter for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.

James A DixonCenter for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coordination within and between organisms is one of the most complex abilities of living systems, requiring the concerted regulation of many physiological constituents, and this complexity can be particularly difficult to explain by appealing to physics. A valuable framework for understanding biological coordination is the

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collective behaviorcoordinationcoordination dynamicsdissipative structuresmaximum entropy productionself-organizationthermodynamics

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PMID34063356

DOI10.3390/e23050614

PMCPMC8156455

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