Dynamics of Crowd-Minds: Patterns of Irrationality in Emotions, Beliefs and Actions

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.

List of contents

Crowding Minds; Patterns of Affect; Doxastic Dynamics; Normative Worlds; Dynamically Non-Trivial Logics; Morphology of Irrationality

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Adamatzky, Adamatzky Andrew
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 237 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 776 g
• Series: World Scientific Series on Non
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics