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This work uses agent-based modeling to model three philosophical accounts of group formation and subsequent group agency. Each account proposes the presence of collective intentionality, a product of either I-intentionality or we-intentionality as its foundation. The successful modeling of all three types of group formation was completed in NetLogo utilizing a common uniform landscape.
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McGowan, L., Westgren, R. (2021). A Study of Group Formation Using Agent-Based Modeling. In: Ahrweiler, P., Neumann, M. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. ESSA 2019. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61503-1_11
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