Dynamics of Crowd-Minds : Patterns of Irrationality in Emotions, Beliefs and Actions
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9789812562869
- ISBN-10: 9812562869
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
- Publish Date: May 2005
- Dimensions: 9.32 x 6.38 x 0.81 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.71 pounds
- Page Count: 264
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