Complexity and the Group Matrix

Abstract

This article explores the potential that the natural sciences of complexity may have for offering analogies and insights with regard to communicative processes in a group and the concept of the group matrix. Foulkes's last formulation of the concept of the group matrix is reviewed, before the author draws on the thoughts of G.H. Mead on mind, self and society, and on some analogies from the complexity sciences, to suggest a formulation of the emergence of mind in communicative interaction within a group.