Cognitive fusion to engage with information complexity and overload

Anticipating When Blackbirds Sing Chinese (Part #3)

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A technical concern corresponding to that of sonification is that of cognitive fusion in relation to information fusion as a challenging requirement for the future -- especially under conditions of information overload in which rapid decision-making is required, as in supersonic fighter aircraft (A. Josang and R. Hankin, Interpretation and fusion of hyper opinions in subjective logic, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2012). The latter is organized by the International Society of Information Fusion. The challenged can be succinctly characterized as one of throughput.

Exploiting the design challenges of nuclear fusion as a metaphor, the future potential of cognitive fusion can however be speculatively explored (Enactivating a Cognitive Fusion Reactor: Imaginal Transformation of Energy Resourcing (ITER-8), 2006; Mass-Energy transformation in psychosocial system containers, 2011).

Related issues are evident in the light of explorations of synaesthesia, grokking, and the like (Authentic Grokking: emergence of Homo conjugens, 2003; Implication of Indwelling Intelligence in Global Confidence-building, 2012). The nature of hyperintelligence is already a matter of debate with respect to future development of artificial intelligence and related speculation. However such speculation tends to avoid the nature of hypersubjectivity (****).

With respect to either Chinese logograms -- or blackbird songbites -- how might those with the capacities of synaesthesia experience either -- or both? How might their comprehension be compared to the case of the Native Indian code talkers?

An interesting challenge with respect to so-called cognitive fusion is the ambiguity of its interpretation as path logical. Thus it can be understood as mistaking thoughts for the phenomena that thoughts represent -- in contrast to cognitive defusion.A similar "confusion" is found with respect to so-called Knight's move thinking, understood as a pathological form of disconnected thinking. However, in chess (and similar strategic games) from which the metaphor derives, it is valued as creative reframing and exploitation of an opportunity. Most ironical, such a move is familiar to dancers as being closely related to the waltz -- suggesting that "non-pathological" is unfortunately understood as unidirectional movement (characteristic of a parade ground). The creative do not dance?

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