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Notes by Alan Dix on "Sync: the emerging science of spontaneous order"

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Sync: the emerging science of spontaneous order

Notes

p.26-29

proof of sync - convexity central

p.33

gobbling turkeys as well as fireflies - contradicts Mithin's claim in The Singing Neanderthals that just us and frogs able to sync. sounds

p.35

reasons for firefly sync - similar to Mithin's frogs

p.62

SS's breakthrough when he studied the instability of chaos!!

p.104

serendipity - not just "fortunate discovery" but "made by people in a particular frame of mind"

p.121

- bouncy toy "Joe Polooka" in US

p.198 & 194

listening to oscillations & chaos

p.253

"power law" in English language different for more or less common words

p.280

synchrony & consciousness

p.282

"Mooney faces" - ambiguous faces and detection of brain synchrony at 'aha' moment (gamma waves, 40Hz)

p.287

- different schools of complexity