Paper Info
Title
Free Information Flow Benefits Truth Seeking.
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, the authors 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 actively perceptive ability of the truth and their believers, while the other individuals may stick to falsehood. But under the influence of the random noise, the authors strictly prove that even there is only one truth seeker in the group, all individuals will finally approach the truth.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s11424-017-7078-4
J. Systems Science & Complexity
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Free information flow, opinion dynamics, random noise, social networks, truth seeking
Journal
abs/1702.07637
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1009-6124
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Su1114.69
Yongguang Yu243436.60