how-nature-works

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Do Bak, Tang & Wiesenfeld's own 1987/88 papers and Bak's How Nature Works state self-organized criticality's tuning threshold as 'necessary' rather than 'necessary but not sufficient'?

capture promoted 2026-09-12 · self-organized-criticality, complex-systems, threshold, bak-tang-wiesenfeld, sandpile-model
Per Bak's *How Nature Works* independently confirms self-organized criticality needs no external tuning, and reserves the word 'necessary' for the non-SOC systems SOC is contrasted against

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · self-organized-criticality, complex-systems, threshold, bak-tang-wiesenfeld, how-nature-works