Fast and slow thinking - of networks: The complementary 'elite' and 'wisdom of crowds' of amino acid, neuronal and social networks

The illustrative videos FAST-xxx.mp4 and SLOW-xxx.mp4 illustrate fast and slow responses to complex systems to "business as usual" situations and unexpected stimuli, respectively. In the "business as usual" situation, nodes of key importance have the same initial reaction (marked by identical colors), which soon becomes the general response of the whole network. On the contrary, the initial response of the key nodes in an unexpected situation may differ, and may generate conflicts (as illustrated by the blinking different initial colors). In this "business as unusual" situations, the general response (illustrated by the final color) is slowly emerging involving the contribution of many individual, peripheral nodes representing the "wisdom of crowds".