Discrete scaling and criticality in a chain of adaptive excitable integrators
We describe a chain of unidirectionally coupled adaptive excitable elements slowly driven by a stochastic process from one end and open at the other end, as a minimal toy model of unresolved irreducible uncertainty in a system performing inference through a hierarchical model. Threshold potentials adapt slowly to ensure sensitivity without being wasteful. Activity and energy are released as intermittent avalanches of pulses with a discrete scaling distribution largely independent of the exogenous input form. Subthreshold activities and threshold potentials exhibit Lorentzian temporal spectra, with a power-law range determined by position in the chain. Subthreshold bistability closely resembles empirical measurements of intracellular membrane potential. We suggest that critical cortical cascades emerge from a trade-off between metabolic power consumption and performance requirements in a critical world, and that the temporal scaling patterns of brain electrophysiological recordings ensue from weighted linear combinations of subthreshold activities and pulses from different hierarchy levels.
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