Author: Andrew Adamatzky
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: series, scientific, nonlinear, science, world, wolrld, actions, beliefs, minds, crowd, patterns, irrationality, emotions, dynamics
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2005-05
List price: $92.00
ISBN-10: 9812562869
ISBN-13: 9789812562869

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 experim