Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power

Foreword
Praise for Cognitive Superiority
Prologue to Warfare in a Cyber Age
	The Conflict Domains
	The Combatants
	The Conflict Matrix
	The Inevitable Effects
	The Claim
	The Audience
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Humans and Their Matrix
	The Technium
	The Noosphere
	The Target: Humans
	Change
		Defining Revolutions
		The Cyber Revolution
		More than Cyber
		Sensing—the Surveilled World (the Panopticon)
		Complexity Science and Network Dynamics
	The Six Domains of Conflict
		The Fourth Domain: Space
		The Fifth Domain: Cyber
		Cognition, the Sixth Domain
		The Time Frames and Battlefields
		Biosecurity (the Essential Tool Is Information)
		The Combatants
	Winning in the Sixth Domain
		The Cognitive Battleground
		Cognitive Superiority (Condensed)
	Organization of the Book
Chapter 2: The Technium: Tools and Targets of the Conflicts
	The Targets in the Technium
		Basic Technium Components
		Cognified Objects (Toward the Internet of Things)
		Communication (Apropos the Technium)
		Vulnerabilities in the Technium (Surfaces of Attack)
	Attack-Tools of the Technium
		Malware and Defenses
			Malware
			Bots
			Memes
			Malicious Actions
			Computational Propaganda
			Time Duration of Successful Attacks
			Defensive Tools and Actions
			Trust Technologies
		Influence, Persuasion, Manipulation, Coercion, Control
			Computerized Persuasion
			Persuasion Through Search Engines
			Persuasion in the xR World
			Persuasion in the AI World
			Fake News and Disinformation (the Power of Perfidy)
			Detecting Fake News and Disinformation
			Narrative Warfare
		Surveillance and the Panopticon (Our Surveilled World)
			Sensing and Communication
			Computation
			Status
		Biological Tools
			Biosecurity and Biological Attacks
			Directed Human Modification
	Trends in the Technium
Chapter 3: The Noosphere
	Bounded Reality
		Filter Bubbles
		Advantages of Bounds
	Cognition
		Learning
		Creativity and Problem Solving
		Reasoning
		Defining a Problem
		Serendipity and Sagacity
		Decision-Making
			Group and Augmented Problem Solving
			The OODA Loop
			Metrics
		Communication (Apropos the Noosphere)
		New Forms of Cognition
		Trust and Doubt
		Influence of Information on Perceived Reality
	Data
		Personal Data
		General Data
		Storage and Retrieval
			Validation and Accessibility
			Document Storage and Retrieval
			Modern Document Storage and Retrieval
			Storage and Retrieval of Activities-Data
			Technology Identification, Storage and Retrieval
			Storage and Retrieval Enterprises
			Combined Storage and Retrieval Systems
			Resilience in Data Storage
	Institutional Noosphere
		Science (Is Provisional)
		Education
		News Reporting
	Trends in the Noosphere
Chapter 4: The Target: Humans
	Modeling Humans
		Understanding Human Behavior
			Rationality, Mathematics and the Human Mind
			Irrationality and the Human Mind
			Human’s Manifold Biases
			Mental Capacity
			Choice
			Groups
			Violence in Human Evolution
		“Personal Nature”
	Human Communications
		Simple Communication
		Communication Quality
		Network Communication
		Negotiation
	Persuasion
		Persuasion Background
			Anecdotes
			Why Does It Work?
			How Does It Work?
		Persuasion Fundamentals
			Central Forms
			Aristotle and His Classic Four Pillars of Rhetoric
			Cicero
			Cialdini
			Sharot
			Fogg
			Thaler and Sunstein
			Pink
			Berger
			Martin and Marks
			Centola
			Jackson
			Digital Attention/Information Merchants
			Diachronic: Shi and the Apple of Discord
			Others
		Confronting the Established
	Vulnerability Points and Surfaces of Humans
		Addictive Technology
		The Range of Vulnerability Surfaces
		Profiles
			Simple Profiles
			Persuasion Profiles
			The Panopticon’s Contribution to Persuasion
		The Experimental Revolution
		The Ideas Industry and Thought Leadership Activities
	Trends in Understanding Humanity
Chapter 5: The Technium—Plus, Redux
	Complex Adaptive Systems
		Emergence and Novelty
		Early Detection of Emergence and Novelty
	AI and the Human Brain
		Neural Nets
		The Brain
		AI Systems’ Bounded Reality
		Other AI Limits
		What Can AI Do?
			J-Wave 1: Rule-Based
			J-Wave 2: Statistical Learning
			J-Wave 3: Contextual Adaptation
			K-Wave 1: Internet AI
			K-Wave 2: Business AI
			K-Wave 3: Perception AI
			K-Wave 4: Autonomous AI
			Profiles
			Take Over the World?
	Network Science
		Human Social Networks
			Networks of Individuals
			Organizational Networks
		Computer Networks
	Quantum Technologies
	xR—Immersive Technologies
	Genetic Engineering and Synthetic Biology
	Other Possibly Transformative Technologies
		Superconductivity
			Superconducting Enabled Transportation
			Superconducting Enabled Energy Storage
			Superconducting Enabled Space Launch
		Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
		3D Printing
	Technology Readiness
Chapter 6: The Adversarial Environment
	Adversaries
		Individuals
		Groups
		Companies
		Non-State Actors
		Nation-States
		Digital Adversaries
	Goals and Intents
		Personal Enmity
		Influence
			Individual and Group Influence
			Corporate Influence
			National Influence
		Surveillance (the Panopticon)
		Economic Gain
		Philosophical and Ideological Motives
		Maliciousness
		Control of Society
		War
			New Rules (or No Rules)
			“Detecting” War
			China
			Russia
			The United States
			Winning
	Why Do We Care—Now More than Ever Before?
		Some Considerations
		Potentially Malignant
		Malignant
		Information and Cyber Superiority
		Threat Analysis
Chapter 7: Engagement
	Strategy
		Education
			Lifelong Learning
			Teaching
			Learning
			Learning and Teaching Methodologies
			Institutional Education
		Information (Knowledge) Access
		Communications Recap
		Organizational Principles
			The Agile Organization
			Organizing amidst Accelerating Change
			Management: Redefining Leadership
			Talent Recruitment
	Addressing the Ongoing Enlarging Conflict
		Past, Current and Proposed Organizations
			Existing Commercial Organizations
			Government Organizations
			Government/Civil Hybrid Organization
		Action Portfolio
			Addressing Technology Demands
			Addressing Influence Attacks
			Addressing Narrative Warfare
			Passive Cyber Defense
			Active Cyber Defense
			Cyber Offense
			Cyber Deterrence
			Resilience
			Multi-Domain Operations
			Perfection
		Change the Environment: The Box and Out of It
			Stratagems
			Space as a New Frontier
		Operating in the Conflict—As It Evolves
			Innovate
			Affiliation for Recruitment
			Persuade
Chapter 8: Conclusion
	The War
		Accelerating Change
		Its from Bits (The Age of Cognification)
		Humanity and Its Matrix
	The Imperative—Cognitive Superiority
		Requirements
		Organizational Implementation: What’s Different Now?
			Structure
			Management (Including Recruitment)
			Talent
			Operational Freedom
			Cognitive Enhancement - Metascience
		Rationale for a Manhattan Project to Achieve Cognitive Superiority
		Foresight for Formation
	It’s Different Now
Appendix
	Discussion of Selected Sources
		Artificial Intelligence
		Cognition
		Communication
		Complex Adaptive Systems
		Education
		Human Networks
		Management
		Persuasion, General
		Persuasive Technology
		Resilience Sources
		The Future
		War and Conflict, General
		War, Information
	Glossary of Selected Terms
Bibliography
Index