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We examine real-time critical processes through an evolutionary lens, finding that protracted conflict between cognitive entities can trigger a self-referential, coevolutionary bootstrap dynamic, virtually a ‘language that speaks itself’. Such phenomena do not permit simple command-loop interventions in John Boyd’s sense and are very hard to contain.
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Wallace, R. (2018). An Evolutionary Approach to Real-Time Conflict: Beware the ‘Language that Speaks Itself’. In: Carl von Clausewitz, the Fog-of-War, and the AI Revolution. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74633-3_6
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