| Dynamics of Crowd-Minds: Patterns of Irrationality in Emotions, Beliefs and Actions Contributor(s): Adamatzky, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 9812562869 ISBN-13: 9789812562869 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Science | Chaotic Behavior In Systems - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics |
| Dewey: 302.33 |
| Series: World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.38" W x 9.32" (1.71 lbs) 264 pages |