@misc{10481/75602,
year = {2022},
month = {4},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/75602},
abstract = {The last decade has witnessed a remarkable progress in our understanding of the
brain. This has mainly been based on the scrutiny and modeling of the transmission
of activity among neurons across lively synapses. A main conclusion, thus far, is
that essential features of the mind rely on collective phenomena that emerge from
a willful interaction of many neurons that, mediating other cells, form a complex
network whose details keep constantly adapting to their activity and surroundings. In
parallel, theoretical and computational studies developed to understand many natural
and artificial complex systems, which have truthfully explained their amazing emergent
features and precise the role of the interaction dynamics and other conditions behind
the different collective phenomena they happen to display. Focusing on promising
ideas that arise when comparing these neurobiology and physics studies, the present
perspective article shortly reviews such fascinating scenarios looking for clues about
how high-level cognitive processes such as consciousness, intelligence, and identity
can emerge. We, thus, show that basic concepts of physics, such as dynamical
phases and non-equilibrium phase transitions, become quite relevant to the brain activity
while determined by factors at the subcellular, cellular, and network levels. We also
show how these transitions depend on details of the processing mechanism of stimuli
in a noisy background and, most important, that one may detect them in familiar
electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. Thus, we associate the existence of such
phases, which reveal a brain operating at (non-equilibrium) criticality, with the emergence
of most interesting phenomena during memory tasks.},
organization = {Project of I+D+i	PID2020-113681GB-I00	
MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033},
organization = {European Commission},
organization = {FEDER/Junta de Andalucia-Consejeria de Transformacion Economica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades/Project	P20_00173},
publisher = {Frontiers},
keywords = {Collective brain phenomena},
keywords = {Adaptive complex networks},
keywords = {Dynamic synapses},
keywords = {Non-equilibrium phase transitions},
keywords = {EEG oscillations},
keywords = {Intelligence},
keywords = {Identity},
keywords = {Consciousness},
title = {Physics Clues on the Mind Substrate and Attributes},
doi = {10.3389/fncom.2022.836532},
author = {Torres Agudo, Joaquín and Marro Borau, Joaquín},
}