Collective consciousness
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=== Sociology === | === Sociology === | ||
| - | Collective consciousness is '''what the majority of agents is thinking or doing right now'''. It is also connected to shared beliefs and attitutes. | + | Collective consciousness is based on collective cognition |
| + | and perception. It is '''what the majority of agents is thinking or | ||
| + | doing right now'''. It is also connected to shared beliefs and attitutes. | ||
According to the french sociologist Émile Durkheim, | According to the french sociologist Émile Durkheim, | ||
the term [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness collective consciousness] | the term [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness collective consciousness] | ||
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=== Collective self-awareness === | === Collective self-awareness === | ||
| - | Collective self-awareness happens '''when the majority of agents is thinking or discussing about themselves''', which is possible during revolutions or revolutionary changes in a society, when the society is debating and changing itself. These revolutionary changes can be more or less peaceful. | + | Collective self-awareness happens '''when the majority of agents is thinking or discussing about themselves''', which is possible during revolutions or revolutionary changes in a society, when the society is debating and changing itself. These revolutionary changes can be more or less peaceful. Collective self-awareness is a bit like '''a thunderstorm in the social network of the society of mind''': items which represent the society become popular supernodes in the social network of the society (which may lead to sudden flashs of insight), but also lead to massive confusion (or thunderheads) afterwards. |
| - | Any team, whether a sports team, an organization, or an army, can have a "team spirit" (in German "Teamgeist"). If the person which seems to embody this team spirit acts for the whole group in some form of competition or election, this can lead to some kind of self-awareness, if the actions are discussed or celebrated afterwards. If the people of a country start to discuss and dismiss their own president (see Egypt 2011), the society becomes aware of itself to a certain degree. | + | In general, everything which represents the society can lead to some form of self-awareness in the society, for instance a sports team in a world cup or an army in a war which shows certain positive or desired attitudes. During the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup|World Cup in 2006], the Germans for example showed their patriotic spirit with flag waving. A kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness|collective consciousness]. |
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| + | Any team, whether a sports team, an organization, or an army, can have a "team spirit" (in German "Teamgeist"). If the person which seems to embody this team spirit acts for the whole group in some form of competition or election, this can lead to some kind of self-awareness, if the actions are discussed or celebrated afterwards. If the people of a country start to discuss and dismiss their own president (see Egypt 2011), the society becomes aware of itself to a certain degree. | ||
=== Insight in Confusion === | === Insight in Confusion === | ||
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agent is able to see eternity in a moment and a lifetime | agent is able to see eternity in a moment and a lifetime | ||
in a day. | in a day. | ||
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| + | == Links == | ||
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| + | * Notebook entry for [http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/collective-cognition.html Collective Cognition] | ||
[[Category:Consciousness]] | [[Category:Consciousness]] | ||
[[Category:Self-Star Properties]] | [[Category:Self-Star Properties]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Collective Processes]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Psychology]] | ||
