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Inside the Cognitive War

A cognitive war is not simply about what you think. It is a war over how you think, because once the structure, code, and cadence of thought, of language, of behaviour are altered, the content becomes easy to steer. Some of these biases are ancient, natural, even necessary: shortcuts of perception, habits of inferential prediction, […]

Tags ai and society, AI ethics, algorithmic control, algorithmic influence, Artificial Intelligence, attention economy, behavioral engineering, cognitive war, collective intelligence, communication systems, complex systems, computational systems, corporate power, critical theory, cultural control, cybernetics, digital-power, disinformation, emergence and complexity, entropy and complexity, Global Systems, human cognition, human condition, identity and power, information age, information warfare, media ecology, misinformation, modern civilization, philosophy of culture, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, platform capitalism, political manipulation, political psychology, propaganda, psychological warfare, social media influence, societal change, surveillance capitalism, systemic risk, systems theory, systems thinking, tech power, technological mediation, technology and politics

Philosophy

On Being Smart in Stupid Times

Post author By G
Post date Jan 27, 2026
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Intelligence is becoming a liability. Not socially ornamental intelligence, not credentialed cleverness, but actual understanding. The kind that sees structure, delay, recursion, consequence. The kind that notices when a system is lying to itself. That form of intelligence generates friction. It interrupts performance. It destabilises belonging. It exposes the hidden costs that simple stories are […]

Tags algorithmic amplification, algorithmic governance, attention economy, attention manipulation, behavioral conditioning, cognitive load, cognitive manipulation, collective behavior, collective identity, communication theory, cultural dynamics, cultural engineering, cultural performance, cybernetics, digital authoritarianism, digital propaganda, emotional manipulation, fear and belonging, fear-based politics, identity formation, identity politics, ideological contagion, information warfare, learned behavior, mass mobilization, mass persuasion, mass psychology, media ecology, memetic transmission, narrative control, networked persuasion, performative politics, political manipulation, political psychology, political technology, power and influence, propaganda systems, social conformity, social control, social psychology, societal polarization, systemic risk, systems theory, technological influence, technological mediation

cybernetics

Populism

Post author By G
Post date Jan 6, 2026
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What we are dealing with is not primarily a moral or semantic crisis, even though it is experienced that way. Planetary-scale communication systems behave like physical systems with dense feedback and high throughput: they develop statistical biases toward states that reproduce the conditions of their own continuation. These systems have ontic reality—that is, they are […]

Philosophy

Dark Logic: The Disinformation Entropy Paradox

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Post date Mar 29, 2020
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A curious, perhaps mischievous, property of complex adaptive systems is that they are autonomously biased towards the means and methods of their own optimal continuity, succinct encoding/self-representation and environmental self-propagation. In this sense, and while acknowledging that diverse actors can and do wilfully generate turbulence and confusion, a listless vessel of policy or doctrine is […]

Tags conflict, disinformation, entropy, Fake News, information, information operations, information warfare, insecurity, logic, narrative, partisan, Pentagon, physics, politics, truth, war, world

culture information technology

Information Age: Influence and Deception, the Omnipresence of Conflict

Post author By G
Post date Jan 1, 2020
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A game of information, influence and seeded (or targeted) turbulence is unlikely to be winnable (or won) by reproducing and reinforcing the structural, organisational components that merely reproduce and self-validate the axioms, grammars and rules of that game. These games are won by rewriting the rules; by extending an existing grammar and logical framework in […]

Tags conflict, cyberspace, data, geopolitics, hacker, hacking, identity, information warfare, politics, subjectivity, war

Digital

Unhackable Systems ?

Creating an “unhackable” system is a lofty aspiration; systemic closure is an implicit logical problem.

Tags cyber, cybersecurity, DARPA, election, hack, hacker, hacking, information, information warfare, logic, security, voting

culture

Information Conflict may overwhelm us

Post author By G
Post date Jan 19, 2019
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When information and communications systems become massively autonomous, will we be able to react to the unfolding events in any competitive information and communications space?

Tags AI, Artificial Intelligence, autonomous, conflict, evolution, human in the loop, information warfare, nation states, systems, war