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Effects of compound messages on global characteristics of Galileo spaces
Authors:Joseph Woelfel  Barbara Newton  Richard Holmes  D Lawrence Kincaid  Jong-Young Lee
Institution:1. Department of Communication, State University of New York, 12222, Albany, New York, USA
2. EWCI, USA
Abstract:The present article investigates the effect of messages compounded of many assertions on the overall size of a Galileo space. A Galileo space is a space within which objects and attributes are arrayed in such a way that the differences in meaning between any two objects in the space is given by the distances between those objects. Thus attributes that seem to be similar are located close to each other, and objects which are seen to embody a given attribute are located close to that attributes. Similarly, objects thought to be similar to each other are located close to each other. Results show that, following approximately a ten hour latency period, the space shows a substantial increase in size, followed by a return to its original dimensions. There is some indication that the expansion of the space may be periodic, which gives rise to the possibility that human beliefs and attitudes may be modelled as a damped oscillating system. Should this be the case, human cognitive processes, such as attitude and belief changes, might be modelled by the equations for dampled oscillations.
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