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Evidence of Critical Dynamics in the Honey Bee Swarm
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: Received: 25 October 2022 / Approved: 27 October 2022 / Online: 27 October 2022 (03:43:00 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 6 November 2022 / Approved: 7 November 2022 / Online: 7 November 2022 (02:40:22 CET)
Version 2 : Received: 6 November 2022 / Approved: 7 November 2022 / Online: 7 November 2022 (02:40:22 CET)
A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.
Shpurov, I.; Froese, T. Evidence of Critical Dynamics in Movements of Bees inside a Hive. Entropy 2022, 24, 1840. Shpurov, I.; Froese, T. Evidence of Critical Dynamics in Movements of Bees inside a Hive. Entropy 2022, 24, 1840.
Abstract
Social insects, such as honey bees exhibit complex behavioral patterns and their inconspicuous coordination enables decision-making on the colony level. It is thus proposed, that a high-level description of their collective behavior might share commonalities with neural processes in the brains. At the same time, recent research concerning overarching features of neural activity implies that brains are poised at the edge of the critical phase transition and that such a state is enabling maximal computational power and adaptability. In our research, we applied some tools developed in the computational neuroscience field to the dataset of bee trajectories recorded within the hive, during the course of many days. Our results imply that certain characteristics of the system are remarkably similar to the Ising model when it operates at critical temperature and also shares some of the features with the human brain at the resting state
Keywords
Swarm dynamics; Criticality; Ising Model; Collective behavior
Subject
Physical Sciences, Other
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