Collectives or How to Change Your World.
Year: 2014
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper explores the possibility of modelling collective reasoning as a new, genuine form of reasoning, \ndifferent from atomistic and social influence modes. We distinguish different modes of human decision \nmaking, discuss which modes are currently captured in agent-based modelling and present a model that \ncaptures a further, as yet not modelled, mode of decision making. \nOur conceptualisation of human decision modes is two dimensional with instrumental, normative and \nautomatic along one axis and individual and social along the other. We argue for the addition of a third, \ncollective dimension, which goes beyond the traditional conceptualisation of social as based on some kind \nof inter-agent influence dynamics. The collective dynamics is the result of an agent’s capacity to understand \noneself as a member of a collective, group or team and change its behaviour accordingly. For this we will \nuse the demise of the Sicilian Mafia resulting at least partly) from the rise of the Addio Pizzo movement, as a \nsocial movement against the Mafia, as a case study.
Authors: Corinna Elsenbroich, Harko Verhagen
Institutions: University of Surrey, Stockholm University
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1567395030