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Conflict between cognitive institutions on a Clausewitz landscape dominated by friction and the fog-of-war enters the same realm of difficulty as confronts and afflicts the study of consciousness in higher animals (e.g., [1,2,3,4], and references therein). Cognitive submodules of institutions and higher animals become linked, at different scales and levels of organization, in tunable, dynamically shifting coalitions in response to signals arising from both internal crosstalk and external “sensory” sources. The formal description of consciousness remains highly contentious and appears to require mathematical tools familiar to the far outlands of string theory.
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Wallace, R. (2020). Final Remarks. In: Cognitive Dynamics on Clausewitz Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26424-6_13
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