Dynamics of Crowd-Minds: Patterns of Irrationality in Emotions, Beliefs And Actions (World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science, Series A) (Wolrld Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science: Series a) |  | Author: Andrew Adamatzky
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1,066,923
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 0.8 x 6 x 9
ISBN: 9812562869
EAN: 9789812562869
ASIN: 9812562869
Publication Date: May 2005
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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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