In technical terms, systems on the edge of chaos are said to be in a state of "self-organised criticality".

专业地来说，在混乱边缘的系统被称为是在“自我组织的临界状态”。

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More recently, it has become clear that brain activity also shows signs of self-organised criticality on a larger scale.

最近，开始逐渐清晰的一点就是，大脑活动也有大范围自我组织临界的迹象。

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They followed this line of enquiry because another property of self-organised criticality is that each event, on average, triggers only one other.

他们选用这种方式进行探究是因为自我组织临界的另一个特性是：平均来说，每一次触发都是一个接一个的。

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Up the road, at a more complex junction, it wasn't so pretty, but it was still civil and self-organised.

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But while Mr Buchanan explains all this well, he also makes a sweeping claim: that human society too is an example of self-organised criticality, and that it is therefore possible to use science to explain the patterns of history.

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