Resumen de The borders of order
Ball reveals that there's increasing evidence that many systems observe in living things are close to what's called a critical point--they sit on a knife-edge precariously poised between order and disorder. Odd as it may sound, this strategy could confer a variety of benefits, in particular the flexibility to deal with a complex and unpredictable environment. Some of the most convincing evidence comes from neuroscience. For a decade now, there are clues that neurons in the brain sit near a critical point.
