The field of collective animal behaviour examines how relatively simple, local interactions between individuals in groups combine to produce global-level outcomes. Existing mathematical models and empirical work have identified candidate mechanisms for numerous collective phenomena but have typically focused on one-off or short-term performance. We argue that feedback between collective perform...

Self-propelled rods, which propel by themselves in the direction from the tail to the head and align nematically through collision, have been well-investigated theoretically. Various phenomena including true long-range ordered phase with the Giant number fluctuations, and the collective motion composed of many vorices were predicted using the minimal mathematical models of self-propelled rods. ...

This article is a theoretical proposal to use the Internet to explore Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious. Recent findings in the field of sociology have shown that real-life social networks can have strong unconscious effects on the behavior of individuals comprising a group. Such complex interactions have led to the need for a new conception of the collective unconscious, one that in...