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Incorporating Representation When Modeling Cultural Dynamics : Analysis of the Bounded Influence Conjecture

A number of social modeling and simulation approaches have attempted to understand the exchange and convergence of ideas based on simple representations and rules for information exchange. However, this focus on finding emergent properties of simple agents and rules has led this research area to avoid handling many genuinely cognitive phenomenona, and ignore many important questions regarding the transmission of cultural ideas. We propose that one deficiency is in the treatment of knowledge in very simple structures, in contrast to the richness of true cultural knowledge. This simplification has lead to the bounded influence conjecture, which we show is not necessary to produce distinct groups of disagreement within an interactive group. Instead, we hypothesize that aspects of the space of valid knowledge states can create a similar outcome. We provide a demonstration of this hypothesis through simulations in a multi-agent