Before revision:  Finally, we show that the mutual information between the cells peaks at this critical point , and can remain large far from the critical point if the cells assume the roles of producer/consumer .
After revision:  Finally, we show that the mutual information between the cells peaks at this critical point , and can remain large far from the critical point on a manifold of cellular states, but scales logarithmically with the correlation time of the system, resulting in an information-correlation time tradeoff. This tradeoff is strictly imposed, suggesting the correlation time as a proxy for the mutual information .