SYNERGINFO · Developments on the relevance of SYNERGistic INFOrmation sharing modes

Developments on the relevance of SYNERGistic INFOrmation sharing modes

"The goal of this project was to study the relevance of relationships between three or more variables that cannot be reduced to a combination of pairwise relationships. One of the main drivers behind Complexity Science is that to understand many systems is ""less the matter and more the patterns""; i.e., the relationship between the constituent elements might be more relevant that the constituent themselves. Traditionally, this view has lead to the growing discipline of ""Complex Networks"", where pairwise relationships are lumped into a graph/network, whose global properties are then studied. In contrast, this project is about studying which relationships cannot be reflected by such network. This topic is very important for society, as it allow us to expand our understanding of what it means to be ""together"". Intuitively, we tend to think that ""togetherness"" can be only more or less, and hence can be quantified by a single number that assess it intensity. In contrast, this project explore different ""modes"" in which variables can be together. Given the political situation where trends towards a global society seem to be in direct opposition to nationalists movements that seek local independency, better understanding these modes might help to bring more dimensions into the discussion. The goal of the project are twofold: 1) To advance our theoretical understanding of these diverse modes of multivariate interdependency, and 2) Explore the implications that these modes might have in real-word scenarios. The scenarios studied in this project are very diverse, including the dynamics of the human brain, decentralised social systems, and data privacy."

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