Information Processing in Complex Networks

The intrinsic dynamics of a dynamical system, for most of them structured as a dynamical network, is used to process information. We believe that this is more "brain-like" than conventional information processing algorithms, where the problems are decomposed down to the elementary logic level by several layers of sophisticated software. Of course, in the end the conventional algorithms may also be considered as dynamical systems. But the decomposition of a given task into a sequence of elementary logical operations appears to us far from the functioning of the brain. In fact, we imagine that at the elementary computing level of the brain, the neuron, various information streams are mixed and processed by the dynamical systems associated with the neuron in parallel with the other neurons in the network.