Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Information-based fitness and the emergence of criticality in living
  systems   Empirical evidence suggesting that living systems might operate in the
vicinity of critical points, at the borderline between order and disorder, has
proliferated in recent years, with examples ranging from spontaneous brain
activity to flock dynamics. However, a well-founded theory for understanding
how and why interacting living systems could dynamically tune themselves to be
poised in the vicinity of a critical point is lacking. Here we employ tools
from statistical mechanics and information theory to show that complex adaptive
or evolutionary systems can be much more efficient in coping with diverse
heterogeneous environmental conditions when operating at criticality.
Analytical as well as computational evolutionary and adaptive models vividly
illustrate that a community of such systems dynamically self-tunes close to a
critical state as the complexity of the environment increases while they remain
non-critical for simple and predictable environments. A more robust convergence
to criticality emerges in co-evolutionary and co-adaptive set-ups in which
individuals aim to represent other agents in the community with fidelity,
thereby creating a collective critical ensemble and providing the best possible
trade-off between accuracy and flexibility. Our approach provides a
parsimonious and general mechanism for the emergence of critical-like behavior
in living systems needing to cope with complex environments or trying to
efficiently coordinate themselves as an ensemble.

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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: cs
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: nlin