Cognitive Dynamics On Clausewitz Landscapes
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Cognitive Dynamics On Clausewitz Landscapes
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Author : Rodrick Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-08-20
Cognitive Dynamics On Clausewitz Landscapes written by Rodrick Wallace and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-20 with Political Science categories.
This book applies cutting-edge methods from cognitive and evolutionary theories to develop models of conflict between hierarchically-structured cognitive entities under circumstances of imprecision, uncertainty and stress. Characterized as friction and the fog-of-war by the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, such conditions impair institutional cognition in real-time conflict and pose a real and continuing threat to organizations, such as the US military. In a linked collection of formal essays and a mathematical appendix, the book explores different aspects of cognitive and evolutionary process as conducted under the direction of doctrine that acts as a kind of genome for retention of what is learned through Lamarckian evolutionary selection pressures: armies and corporate entities learn from conflict, and incorporate that learning into their ongoing procedures. The book proposes models and policy solutions for strategic competence. A central feature of the book is a formal description of the famous OODA loop of the US military theorist John Boyd in terms of the Data Rate Theorem that links control and information theories. That description is expanded to cover more fully the impact of stochastic fog-of-war effects on tactical and operational scales of conflict. Subsequent chapters examine in more detail the role of doctrine, and the particular effect of embedding culture on cognitive and Lamarckian evolutionary processes associated with conflict on tactical, operational, and strategic scales and levels of organization. A scientifically sophisticated exercise in applied mathematics, history, evolutionary theory, and ecosystem theory, this book will be appropriate for researchers and students interested in defense, security, and international relations, as well as non-academic career professionals in government and industry.
Mathematical Essays On Embodied Cognition
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Author : Rodrick Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-05-13
Mathematical Essays On Embodied Cognition written by Rodrick Wallace and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-13 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book provides a unique formal foundation for the development of statistical tools useful in the exploration of observational and experimental data related to embodied cognition. The asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories can be used to construct statistical tools analogous to -- but different from -- regression models for the study of the often highly punctuated cognitive phenomena embedded in and hence influenced by a surrounding ecosystem of which the phenomena are themselves part. The book builds probability models based on those theorems that incorporate embodiment at a number of scales and levels of organization, ranging from the effects of stress on the immune system within a higher organism, through institutional (and machine) cognition under challenge from adversaries, to the failure of public health institutions under pathogen challenge. In distinct contrast to the existing literature, many detailed, worked-out examples provide templates for sophisticated readers to build their own model/tool constructs.
Essays On The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
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Author : Rodrick Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-05-18
Essays On The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis written by Rodrick Wallace and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-18 with Science categories.
From the ‘punctuated equilibrium' of Eldrege and Gould, through Lewontin's ‘triple helix' and the various visions and revisions of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) of Laland and others, both data and theory have demanded an opening-up of the 1950's Evolutionary Synthesis that so firmly wedded evolutionary theory to the mathematics of gene frequency analysis. It can, however, be argued that a single deep and comprehensive mathematical theory may simply not be possible for the almost infinite varieties of evolutionary process active at and across the full range of scales of biological, social, institutional, and cultural phenomena. Indeed, the case history of 'meme theory' should have raised a red flag that narrow gene-centered models of evolutionary process may indeed have serious limitations. What is attempted here is less grand, but still broader than a gene-centered analysis. Following the instruction of Maturana and Varela that all living systems are cognitive, in a certainsense, and that living as a process is a process of cognition, the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories that bound all cognition provide a basis for constructing an only modestly deep but wider-ranging series of probability models that might be converted into useful statistical tools for the analysis of observational and experimental data related to evolutionary process. The line of argument in this series of interrelated essays proves to be surprisingly direct.
Consciousness Cognition And Crosstalk The Evolutionary Exaptation Of Nonergodic Groupoid Symmetry Breaking
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Author : Rodrick Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-20
Consciousness Cognition And Crosstalk The Evolutionary Exaptation Of Nonergodic Groupoid Symmetry Breaking written by Rodrick Wallace and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-20 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book makes application to the dynamics of arousal and distraction, and to other examples. A modified version of the Kadanoff picture of phase transitions in consciousness emerges from the Morse Function itself in a surprisingly standard manner, closely associated with the breaking of groupoid symmetries driven by fundamental equivalence class algebras. Although this is far indeed from the familiar world of physical theory, it should be possible, on the basis of the probability models developed in the book, to develop new statistical tools for the analysis of observational and empirical data regarding cognition and consciousness.
Essays On Strategy And Public Health
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Author : Rodrick Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-04-01
Essays On Strategy And Public Health written by Rodrick Wallace and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-01 with Political Science categories.
This book is a collection of essays that explore commonalities and contrasts between strategy in armed conflict and strategy in public health. The first part uses the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories to study strategy as an exchange of messages between adversaries, in the context of underlying power relations. The ‘messages’ to be exchanged are constructed from an ‘alphabet’ of tactics available to each contender, in a large sense. The second part of the book explores four case histories from this perspective, ranging across agribusiness-generated pandemics, through tuberculosis and COVID-19. The final chapter attempts a strategic synthesis applicable more specifically to public health than to the remarkably – and disturbingly -- close parallel of armed conflict. Taking a unique approach to public health tactics and strategy this volume will be of interest to social epidemiologists, public health economists, public policy scientists, as well as public health researchers and practitioners.
Deception And Delay In Organized Conflict
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Author : Rodrick Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-02-25
Deception And Delay In Organized Conflict written by Rodrick Wallace and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book explores the role of deception, delay, and self-deception in the dynamics of organized conflict, taking a formal approach that hews closely to the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories. The resulting probability models can, with some effort—and some confidence—be converted to statistical tools for the analysis of real-time observational and ‘experimental’ data on institutionalized confrontation across both traditional and emerging ‘Clausewitz Landscapes’.
Learning From The Stones
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Author : David Lai
language : en
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute
Release Date : 2004
Learning From The Stones written by David Lai and has been published by Strategic Studies Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Clausewitz On Strategy
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Author : Tiha von Ghyczy
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2001-05-07
Clausewitz On Strategy written by Tiha von Ghyczy and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-07 with Business & Economics categories.
Think about strategy and sharpen judgment in an unpredictable environment Carl von Clausewitz is widely acknowledged as one of the most important of the major strategic theorists; he's been read by Eisenhower, Kissinger, Patton, Chairman Mao, and numerous other leaders. In Clausewitz on Strategy, the Boston Consulting Group's Strategy Institute has excerpted those passages most relevant to business strategy from Clausewitz's classic text On War, the most general, applicable, and enduring work of strategy in the modern West and a source of insight into the nature of conflict, whether on the battlefield or in the boardroom. This book offers Clausewitz's framework for self-education--a way to train the reader's thinking. Clausewitz speaks the mind of the executive, revealing logic that those interested in strategic thinking and practice will find invaluable. He presents unique ideas, such as the idea that friction--unexpected interference--is an intrinsic part of strategy. The Boston Consulting Group is one of the world's leading management consulting firms whose clients include many of the world's industry leaders. Tiha von Ghyczy (Charlottesville, VA) has been a faculty member and Director of Business Projects at the Darden School of Business since 1996. While with The Boston Consulting Group, he assumed responsibility for the practice groups in manufacturing/time-based competition and high technology. He has published numerous articles and books on vision and strategy. Bolko von Oetinger (Munich, Germany) is a Senior Vice President of BCG. Christopher Bassford (Washington, DC) is presently a Professor of Strategy at the National War College in Washington, DC, and the author of several books, including Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945.
Strategic Theory For The 21st Century The Little Book On Big Strategy
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Author : Harry R. Yarger
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Strategic Theory For The 21st Century The Little Book On Big Strategy written by Harry R. Yarger and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Military doctrine categories.
Artificial War
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Author : Andrew Ilachinski
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2004
Artificial War written by Andrew Ilachinski and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Computers categories.
Military conflicts, particularly land combat, possess the characteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces are composed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and are organized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local action, which often appears disordered, self-organizes into long-range order; military conflicts, by their nature, proceed far from equilibrium; military forces adapt to a changing combat environment; and there is no master ?voice? that dictates the actions of every soldier (i.e., battlefield action is decentralized). Nonetheless, most modern ?state of the art? military simulations ignore the self-organizing properties of combat.This book summarizes the results of a multiyear research effort aimed at exploring the applicability of complex adaptive systems theory to the study of warfare, and introduces a sophisticated multiagent-based simulation of combat called EINSTein. EINSTein, whose bottom-up, generative approach to modeling combat stands in stark contrast to the top-down or reductionist philosophy that still underlies most conventional military models, is designed to illustrate how many aspects of land combat may be understood as self-organized, emergent phenomena. Used worldwide by the military operations research community, EINSTein has pioneered the simulation of combat on a small to medium scale by using autonomous agents to model individual behaviors and personalities rather than hardware.