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)

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. "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."--Jacket

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.

In the book we exploit paradigms of non-linear psychology, artificial life and sociodynamics to simulate, analyze and characterize spatio-temporal dynamics of massive pools of mental entities, i.e. non-trivial dynamics of crowd-minds.