Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power

Abstract

Intro -- 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.