Network of Perceptions

TL;DR

This paper explores how perception influences conscious behavior and decision-making, emphasizing stochastic belief formation and the impact of perception-based social networks on agents.

Contribution

It introduces a novel agent model based on energy minima in interaction landscapes, linking perception, stochasticity, and social network formation.

Findings

Perception affects decision-making through stochastic belief dynamics.

Agents form social networks based on perception-related beliefs.

Interaction landscapes lead to asymmetries in perceptions.

Abstract

The role of perception in conscious behavior and decision-making is examined. The effect of spatial and temporal stochasticity in the acquisition of beliefs is discussed. The idea of an agent as a locally strongly coupled group of states leads to the creation of energy minima in an interaction potential landscape. The interaction of such agent states and environment states acting at different levels of complexity and scale, subject to stochastically expressed interaction interfaces, may lead to asymmetry in perceptions. Agents possessing different perception related beliefs are then connected in a social network.