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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The Consensus Problem in Polities of Agents with Dissimilar Cognitive Architectures.

Damian Radosław Sowinski, Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, Jeremy DeSilva, Adam Frank, Gourab Ghoshal, Marcelo Gleiser

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Damian Radosław SowinskiThayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3136-7449
Jonathan Carroll-NellenbackDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3265-7210
Jeremy DeSilvaDepartment of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
Adam FrankDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4948-7820
Gourab GhoshalDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7593-5626
Marcelo GleiserDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1402-9018

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Agents interacting with their environments, machine or otherwise, arrive at decisions based on their incomplete access to data and their particular cognitive architecture, including data sampling frequency and memory storage limitations. In particular, the same data streams, sampled and stored differently, may cause agents to arrive at different conclusions and to take different actions. This phenomenon has a drastic impact on polities-populations of agents predicated on the sharing of information. We show that, even under ideal conditions, polities consisting of epistemic agents with heterogeneous cognitive architectures might not achieve consensus concerning what conclusions to draw from datastreams. Transfer entropy applied to a toy model of a polity is analyzed to showcase this effect when the dynamics of the environment is known. As an illustration where the dynamics is not known, we examine empirical data streams relevant to climate and show the

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agentconsensusinformation theorypolitysociophysicstransfer entropy

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PMID37420398
PMCPMC9601116

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