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Dynamics Of Crowd-minds : Patterns Of Irrationality In Emotions, Beliefs And Actions.
Title:
Dynamics Of Crowd-minds : Patterns Of Irrationality In Emotions, Beliefs And Actions.
Author:
Adamatzky, Andrew.
ISBN:
9789812569486
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Crowding Minds -- 1.1 Non-linear psychology and sociodynamics -- 1.2 Crowds -- 1.3 Quasi-chemistry and cellular automata -- 1.4 Dual interpretation -- 1.5 Emotions, beliefs and actions -- Chapter 2 Patterns of Affect -- 2.1 Artificial chemistry of emotions -- 2.2 Happiness and sadness -- 2.3 Anger, fear and happiness -- 2.4 Happiness, anger, confusion and fear -- 2.5 Happiness, anger, confusion and sadness -- 2.6 Emotional abuse therapy -- 2.7 Affectons -- 2.7.1 Affectons in random environment -- 2.7.2 Reflecting singletons -- 2.7.3 Coupled affectons -- 2.8 Wicked feelings -- Chapter 3 Doxastic Dynamics at the Edge of Irrationality -- 3.1 On doxastic states and their binary compositions -- 3.2 Non-sense functors -- 3.3 Reflective agents -- 3.4 Stirred crowds -- 3.5 Non-stirred crowds -- 3.5.1 Development of doxatons from H-configuration -- 3.5.2 Development of doxatons from Q-configuration -- 3.5.3 Collective based on algebras of non-sense -- 3.6 Interacting doxastic worlds -- 3.7 Doxastic chemistries -- 3.7.1 Doxastic reactions -- 3.7.2 Rationalizing doxastic mixtures -- 3.8 Future is delusion -- Chapter 4 Normative Worlds -- 4.1 Norms -- 4.2 Properties of (D, N) -- 4.3 Normalizing doxatons -- 4.4 Normalization of reflecting doxatons -- 4.5 Solutions of normalized doxatons -- 4.6 Quiescent states and sets -- 4.7 On stable neighborhoods -- 4.8 Homogeneity of doxaton local functions -- 4.9 Evolving from the homogeneous configurations -- 4.10 Fate of the singleton -- 4.10.1 Ignorant singleton -- 4.10.2 Doubting singleton -- 4.10.3 Delusional singleton -- 4.10.4 Misbelieving singleton -- 4.10.5 Singleton that knows -- 4.11 Evolving from the random configuration -- 4.12 Consequences of normalization -- Chapter 5 Dynamically Non-trivial Logics -- 5.1 Artificial chemistry of logics: the model.

5.2 Non-trivially behaving systems -- 5.3 Oscillatory logic (T*) -- 5.3.1 Stirred reactors -- 5.3.2 Thin-layer reactors -- 5.4 Bifurcatory logic (*T) -- 5.4.1 Stirred reactor -- 5.4.2 Thin-layer reactor -- 5.5 Emergence of complexity -- 5.5.1 Static complexity of interaction rules -- 5.5.2 Complexity of connectives -- 5.6 Niche of non-triviality -- Chapter 6 Morphology of Irrationality -- 6.1 Interval sensitivity -- 6.2 Morphological classification -- 6.2.1 Hyper-sociality: C-class -- 6.2.2 Autistic dissolution: S-class -- 6.2.3 Segregation: H-class -- 6.2.4 Socialization: P-class -- 6.2.5 Brewing of structure: Y-class -- 6.2.6 Structuring crowds: L-class -- 6.2.7 Ordered crowds: F-class -- 6.3 Time, size and order -- 6.3.1 Size -- 6.3.2 Convergence -- 6.3.3 Order -- 6.4 Rational choice and threshold of activation -- 6.5 Upshots of unrest -- 6.6 Boosting degree of unreason -- 6.6.1 New faces of irrational morphology -- 6.6.2 Density-based description -- 6.6.3 Necessary conditions -- 6.6.4 Fine structure of morphologies of irrational crowds -- 6.6.5 Hierarchies of irrationality, hostility and unrest -- 6.7 Controlling irrational crowds -- 6.7.1 Negation -- 6.7.2 (Con/Dis)junction of classes -- 6.8 Schizophrenia on a lattice -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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