Chemistry of belief - Experiments with doxastic solutions
An artificial chemistry approach is adopted to explore new ways of investigating a global dynamic of a collective belief Five derivatives of belief are considered-knowledge, misbelief, delusion, ignorance, and doubt-to be reactants of an abstract chemical solution. The reactants interact one with another by certain laws obtained though unconventional interpretation of a belief update. Several types of reaction systems are studied in computational experiments with the doxastic solutions. A global dynamic of doxastic chemical solutions is also interpreted from a common-sense Point of view.
cybernetics artificial intelligence behavioural sciences