Network Theory of Human Decision Making

Abstract : This research work has established a close connection between the brain's function and the function of cooperative sociological systems. In both cases cooperation is the source of long-range interaction enabling the transfer of information from one subset of the system to another in spite of large Euclidean distances. This sheds light into the intelligence of a swarm and explains at the same time the surprising role that committed minorities may have to establish the consensus of a given society. It is also expected that these results may shed light into the origin of cognition.