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Agent_Zero: toward neurocognitive foundations for generative social science

By Epstein , Joshua M

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780691158884, 9781400848256, 1400848253
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17789487 bytes)
Series
Princeton studies in complexity
Pages
illustrations (black and white, and colour)\268
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Social sciences--Computer simulation;Social scienc

Description

In this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This software individual, or 'agent, ' is endowed with distinct emotional/affective, cognitive/deliberative, and social modules. Grounded in contemporary neuroscience, these internal components interact to generate observed, often far-from-rational, individual behavior. When multiple agents of this new type move and interact spatially, they collectively generate an astonishing range of dynamics spanning the fields of social conflict, psychology, public health, law, network science, and economics.

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