A cloud of phase oscillators is scattered through 3D space and locally coupled to its nearest neighbors. This is the Kuramoto model — the same coupled-oscillator mathematics used in neuroscience to describe how large-scale phase coherence (a measurable proxy for integrated, brain-wide activity) can emerge purely from many simple local interactions, without any central controller.
Order parameter r: 0.00
Mean coupled frequency: 0.00 rad/s
Simulated time: 0.0 s
💡 r (0→1) is the Kuramoto order parameter: the magnitude of the average phase vector across all oscillators. r≈0 means incoherent, random phases; r≈1 means every node has locked into the same rhythm — the same quantity researchers use to score EEG/MEG phase-locking across brain regions.
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