Chaos and Complex Systems Seminar

Deric Bownds, UW-Madison Department of Zoology, discusses the evolution and structures of calm and arousal — whether we are chilled out or losing it, tracing the story from bacteria through increasingly complex nervous systems to our human refinements; some brain and body correlates of stress and calm; the relevance of self models; and a toolkit of variables that can alter the balance between calm and arousal.