Rhythms of the Collective Brain: Metastable Synchronization and Cross-Scale Interactions in Connected Multitudes

Figure 5

Cross-scale interactions in social coordination. Schematic displaying the results presented in previous figures. (a) Interactions in terms of average transfer entropy between energy levels at different frequencies described by and . For simplicity, only the largest upward (solid lines) and downward (dashed lines) values of transfer entropy are represented. (b) Fragment of activity of all nodes in the network (tweets per second) filtered by the 8 wavelets used in the filtering. (c) Metastable states of the models at each frequency. For simplicity, only metastable configurations of the five cities with largest volume of activity are represented.