Future strategic communication patterns enabled by artificial intelligence?

Cognitive Navigation of the Elements as Indicative Strategic Metaphors (Part #12)

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The impact of AI on strategic thinking is currently a matter of extensive speculation -- extending to its potential "curation" of mainstream discourse (Governance of Pandemic Response by Artificial Intelligence, 2021). The latter explored the control of human agents unconscious of AI-elaboration of communication scripts.

Gaming: Of particular interest is the potential of AI to transcend conventional patterns of categories "creatively" -- to make meaningful connections which have been ignored or deprecated by science. How such offerings may relate to popular frames of reference remains to be discovered. The activation of the significance of traditional mythology by Dungeons and Dragons provides one example (Steffan Powell, Dungeons and Dragons: why Hollywood is keen on a 50-year-old game, BBC, 29 March 2023).

Whether in the form of video games (esports) or movies, the intimate relationship between Hollywood and the Pentagon has been extensively reviewed as a feature of the military-entertainment complex (Georg Löfflmann, Hollywood, the Pentagon, and the cinematic production of national security, Critical Studies on Security, 1, 2013, 3). It is intriguing to imagine how the relevance of the mythological battles of D and D is understood by the Pentagon in relation to the future of memetic warfare and cognitive warfare.

Stargates? Popular psychology, through media science fiction series like Stargate, has been imaginatively influenced by the possibility of so-called "stargates" and their potential (Future Global Exodus to the Metasphere, 2022). The latter envisaged their role in enabling mass migration of humanity to a new cognitive frontier. . Aspects of their future role and functioning were explored separately (Post-Apocalyptic Renaissance of Global Civilization, 2018) in the following sections of relevance: to this argument:

The concept can be explored in terms of modes of travel (Noonautics: four modes of travelling and navigating the knowledge "universe"? 2006) which included the question of how they might be "embodied" (Embodying a universe of "stargates"? 2006; People as Stargates, 1996). The latter envisaged an alternative perspective on human relationships in space-time.

Mandalas as maps of "multi-rotor" dynamics? The many traditional forms of mandala are valued from some religious and psychological perspectives (Anjali Alloria, Mandalas: Transcending Beyond Circles and Symmetry to Psychology, Medium, 9 November 2019). They may specifically recall the pattern of traditional elements -- in the light of their cognitive implications. Of great potential interest is whether versions of AI can design alternative mandalas -- of richer and more accessible forms, meaningful to distinctive audiences.

Particularly intriguing is the development from static configurations, in which the cognitive dynamics are only implied (if at all), to dynamic forms with which cognitive dynamics can be more explicitly associated, as tentatively illustrated separately (Eliciting Insight from Mandala-style Logos in 3D, 2020). The conventional segmentation of mandalas suggest that these may be understood as cognitive vortices resembling the vortices engendered by the rotors discussed above. Mandalas can indeed be recognized as operating as the psychopters mentioned above.

Rotary sails? The argument above explored the possibilities of "lift-off" in the light of multi-rotor coptors. It is appropriate to note the potential relevance of the thinking now applied to what are termed rotary sails and turbosails on ships and yachts -- most obviously  in terms of horizontal movement, whether or not variants are developed for space travel.  These depend on the Magnus effect, namely a force acting on a spinning body in a moving airstream, which produces a force perpendicular to both the direction of the airstream and the axis of the rotor.

Further speculation is suggestion by the rotation of Möbius strips (Z. Z. Nie, et al., Light-driven continuous rotating Möbius strip actuators, Nature Communications, 12, 2021, 2334).

Wave-based reality? The argument here follows from earlier approaches, in anticipation of their development (Encountering Otherness as a Waveform -- in the light of a wave theory of being, 2013; Being a Waveform of Potential as an Experiential Choice: emergent dynamic qualities of identity and integrity, 2013;  Being Neither a-Waving Nor a-Parting -- considering both science and spirituality, 2013).

The possibility and urgent need for a radical transformation of perspective -- a paradigm shift -- is variously articulated, as featured in arguments of Alexander Wendt from an international relations perspective (Quantum Mind and Social Science: unifying physical and social ontology, 2015). Wendt argues for recognition that people may be understood as "walking wave functions", for example (On being "walking wave functions" in terms of quantum consciousness?, 2017).

Repurposing weapons research? The response to a question to ChatGPT concluded with the following summary statement: Overall, repurposing weapons research for social benefit involves identifying the potential civilian applications of military technologies and investing in research and development to adapt these technologies to meet civilian needs. This can help promote sustainable development, human well-being, and peace, while reducing the reliance on military applications of technology.

Arguably this misses the kind of thinking required to identify the possibility and to understand how the adaptation might be achieved. Such thinking is inherent in the discipline of general systems research which recognizes the similarity between seemingly disparate patterns. With pattern recognition as a skill purportedly associated with artificial intelligence, yet to be highlighted is how AI can enable both identification and adaptation -- as exemplified by innovative biomimicry and technomimicry.

With the focus of the argument above on a hypothetical "psychopter", the response by ChatGPT to the following question is an indication of current limitations, variously avoiding the insights into the "sociophysics" emerging from helicopter development, as articulated by Arthur Young and noted above..

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