Coalitional Games

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Coalitional Games

Sociotechnical systems for resilient societies


"language evolved not to inform others but to manipulate and deceive them. However, the signals of language are impotent unless the recipient actively applies complicated computations to decode them. It is impossible to use language to manipulate someone who does not understand the language, so you need others to learn the language through which you will ultimately manipulate them"

"language evolved to allow us to think rather than to communicate. It is impossible to think at human levels of complexity without a representational medium for propositions, and language is that medium"



"in all communication systems, errors in signalling or perception are inevitable, especially when signals are physically similar; hence, you should expect errors in a coalitional swarm of Debenian probes, and we need to identify and detect those errors to exploit them against the probes"

"syntax is invaluable to an analytical mind in a combinatorial world."

"One of the most prominent features of the consumer society is that human individuals acquire social meaning and establish social relationships by consuming material objects. This is the social foundation for the production of the commodities’ symbolic value. Therefore, the collapse of the logistics chain, of the manufacturing process, turn human individuals into socially meaningless. That's the difference between the Ebola experiments and the experiments with coronavirus: nobody cares about a bunch of Africans dieing in a remote village in a dark corner of the jungle, but everybody thrills about the logistics chain collapsing because of a virus in Wuhan"

"When two probes meet they start without a lexicon nor shared meanings, and play language games in which they generate new meanings and negotiate words for these meanings. That's the essence of Cassini Diskus. After a period of interaction both probes finally evolve a shared language in which they can communicate."

"In an intrinsically dedicated symbol system there are more constraints on the symbol tokens than merely syntactic ones. Symbols are manipulated not only on the basis of the arbitrary shape of their tokens, but also on the basis of the decidedly non-arbitrary shape of the iconic and categorical representations connected to the grounded elementary symbols out of which the higher-order symbols are composed. Of these two kinds of constraints, the iconic/categorical ones are primary."

"The advent of the consumer society makes all the more appealing the enormous profitability underlying commodities, and “consumption” becomes the absolute truth with which to measure everything. Conventional values have been supplanted by new criteria and new values and the privileged class, in control of the dominant power and inordinate wealth, reconstructs the subjectivity of human beings while exaggerating man’s material needs. They manipulate man’s material needs into a system of meaning and, with the help of all forms of communication media, infuse particular meanings into a wide diversity of signifiers ranging from commodities and spaces to ways of conduct, thus constructing the connotative signifieds for physical objects."

"In today’s highly symbolized world, we are no longer interested in how the meaning is produced behind a symbol; instead, we simply embrace the meaning conveyed by a symbol. Now, how do symbols construct meaning in our society? We find it absolutely impossible to evade the ubiquitous mass media or to resist all forms of consumption myths that are created via various channels of communication. Symbols are inextricably connected with the ideology of a given society. We are unware, though, that those symbols impose constraints on a society’s cultural claims and moral standards with seemingly innate social conventions that are precisely debased by those symbols"

"The coronavirus outbreak is a nice example on how controlling symbolism translates into controlling an entire society. The public has to strictly follow this new encoding system with which to interpret the culture of a given society, to regulate one’s speech and conduct, and even to spontaneously construct its own subjectivity. We know aliens, as a symbol, would never be enough to modify a society's belief system, hence we need something more powerful, something perceived as posing a lethal threat, something invisible, something credible, and in fact not all people believe in aliens, but all of them believe in viruses"



"The coronavirus, or any other virus for that matter, shows a society striped of its due order, which is a cause for apprehension because such a society is an overly orderly and uniform society. We wish to know how the entire society can assimilate positive values from the traditional culture, and how a system of core socio-centric values of harmony, amicability, credibility, and civilization could be constructed, and the scenario of a global invisible threat opens the doors to gaining that knowledge".

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