Free information flow benefits truth seeking

DOI10.1007/S11424-017-7078-4MaRDI QIDQ1621183zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wei Su, Yongguang Yu

Publication date 8 November 2018

Published in Journal of Systems Science and Complexity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07637

zbMATH Keywords

social networksopinion dynamicsrandom noisefree information flowtruth seeking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

Abstract: How can we approach the truth in a society? It may depend on various factors. In this paper, using a well-established truth seeking model, we show that the persistent free information flow will bring us to the truth. Here the free information flow is modeled as the environmental random noise that could alter one's cognition. Without the random noise, the model predicts that the truth can only be captured by the truth seekers who own active perceptive ability of the truth and their believers, while the other individuals may stick to falsehood. But under the influence of the random noise, we strictly prove that even there is only one truth seeker in the group, all individuals will finally approach the truth.

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