A Higher-Order Adaptive Network Model on the Interplay of Synchrony and Adaptation for Reliving Memory and Religious Experience through Multimodal Interaction

Depending on the person asked, religion can seem to have many wonderful or awful aspects and impacts. Regardless the view, emotion often takes the upper hand over objectivity. This paper aims to contribute to a more objective look on the positive impact religion can have. This is done by computationally recreating, simulating and subsequently inspecting a real-life scenario in which positive impacts were experienced. In order to recreate such scenario computationally, a network-oriented modeling approach was used to create an adaptive agent model based on the principle of self-modeling. This network-oriented approach is a method employed to depict real-world processes involving human beings and the representation of mental mechanisms inspired by neurological processes.