A crowd-mind emerges when formation of a crowd causes fusion of individual minds into one collective mind. Members of the crowd lose their individuality. The deindividuation leads to derationalization: emotional, impulsive and irrational behavior, self-catalytic activities, memory impairment, perceptual distortion, hyper-responsiveness, and distortion of traditional forms and structures. This book presents unique results of computational studies on cognitive and affective space-time processes in large-scale collectives of abstract agents being far from mental equilibrium. Computational experiments demonstrate that the irrational and nonsensical behavior of individual entities of crowd-mind results in complex, rich and non-trivial spatio-temporal dynamics of the agent collectives. Mathematical methods employ theory and techniques of cellular-automata and lattice swarms, applied algebra, theory of finite automata and Markov chains, and elementary differential equations.
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Crowding Minds; Patterns of Affect; Doxastic Dynamics; Normative Worlds; Dynamically Non-Trivial Logics; Morphology of Irrationality
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789812562869
Publisert
2005-05-30
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Vendor
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
264
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