Cool stuff! It's an interesting approach to the starling phenomenon. I'm familiar with the phenomenon through the lens of phase transitions and the critical point, which you allude to in the article briefly. Any further thoughts on how your neural-network based approach maps conceptually to the critical point and related models of emergent behavior?
Fantastic question :) one could extrapolate the possibility space here to see the potential. The interesting core here is the emergent behavior clearly visible in the vizs - what happens when you measure this in higher-dimensional and more connected networks? (What if it’s not noids?) I think this is underexplored in interpretability today
