Home Browse by Subject Bestsellers New Titles Editor's Choice New Reviews Textbooks
Search Book Series Study Guides Rights Inspection Copy Contact Us Join Our Mailing List
For Authors How to Order E-Catalogues

Browse all Subjects
Search Bookshop
New Titles
Editor's Choice
Bestsellers
Book Series
Textbooks
Journals
Join Our Mailing List
 
World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science, Series A - Vol. 54

DYNAMICS OF CROWD-MINDS
Patterns of Irrationality in Emotions, Beliefs and Actions

by Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)

Table of Contents (82k)
Preface (50k)
Chapter 1: Crowding Minds (778k)

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.


Contents:

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


Readership: Academics and researchers in computer science, physics, mathematics, social sciences and psychology.

264pp Pub. date: May 2005
ISBN 978-981-256-286-9
981-256-286-9
US$68 / £37


Copyright © 2008 World Scientific Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
Updated on 4 July 2008