Strategic Paralysis through Ignoring Higher Dimensional Articulation

TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 25 Nov 2024

Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service

AI Assistance in Engaging Meaningfully with Complexity Beyond Oversimplification

Introduction

25 Nov 2024 – The future may characterize the present period as one of strategic paralysis in the face of a polycrisis. That is not to imply that strategic thinking currently lacks a dynamic or a path of development in the face of complexity. The inertia derives from the manner in which strategy is apparently locked into simplistic binary patterns. The primary focus is on singular enemies, exemplified by “Russia”, “China”, or “Hezbollah”. This extends to the dramatis personae of the global problematique distinguished separately: poverty, injustice, pollution, shortages, unemployment, and the like. As a strategic drama these are held to be appropriately framed by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — which the recent  Summit of the Future endeavoured desperately to “turbocharge”, as discussed separately (Turbocharging SDGs by Activating Global Cycles in a 64-fold 3D Array, 2024).

The binary patterns follow from the massive strategic effort to achieve a degree of monopolar hegemony in the face of multipolar trends. These evoke authoritarian repressive measures readily deplored by critics as characteristic of fascism, most notably with the election of Donald Trump. Curiously critics are seemingly handicapped in articulation of any alternative to that of simply “stopping” such repression. The organization of a democratic multipolar world order is proving elusive, however much it is enthusiastically promulgated as a viable ideal in the current context by many “voices” — themselves characterized by their dysfunctional differences. Ironically even the possibility of “two-state” reconciliation of conflicts is excluded (Reframing “Two-state” Possibilities, 2024; Clarifying a Two-state Pattern Language of 64 Modalities, 2024).

Rather than seeking insight via AI regarding the current strategic situation, the UN’s Summit of the Future focused much of its attention on the articulation of a Global Digital Compact as a priority in constraining its use — demonstrating little ability to comprehend how AI might be of significant benefit in the face of a polycrisis, as discussed separately (Analysis by AI of Reports of UN Debate on Artificial intelligence, 2024; Reframing UN’s Global Digital Compact as a coherent memorable pattern, 2024). There is little capacity to appreciate how AI might enable “re-search” of the world’s neglected knowledge resources, gleaning potential insight wherever it may be found — rather than within the confines of silos which currently authorize constrained conventional research (Mathematical Modelling of Silo Thinking in Interdisciplinary Contexts, 2024; Facilitating Global Dialogue with AI? 2024).

The question explored here is how AI might enable insights into complex arrays of categories of strategic significance. Given the constraints on human memory and comprehension, a key concern is how such arrays might be coherently configured — and the clues and metaphors indicative of such possibilities. A strategic urgency is readily stressed (Time for Provocative Mnemonic Aids to Systemic Connectivity? 2018). The argument here is the further development of exchanges with AI regarding the strategic potential of higher dimensionality (Neglect of Higher Dimensional Solutions to Territorial Conflicts, 2024).

Given widespread preoccupation with the threat of fascism, of somewhat ironic relevance is the capacity of AI (as a threat in its own right) to reframe consideration of the variants of the Swastika in the light of the renowned insights of AI into the patterns associated with chess and the game of go (Perception of Swastika variants as the epitome of polarization, 2024; Relevant integrative perspectives on the swastika from 4D?, 2024; Strategic implications of the relationship between incommensurable cognitive modalities, 2024).

As in the previous experiments, the responses of ChatGPT 4o are distinctively presented below in grayed areas. Given the length of the document to which the exchange gives rise, the form of presentation has itself been treated as an experiment — in anticipation of the future implication of AI within research documents (Ahmed Salem Bahammam, Adapting to the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Writing, Journal of Nature and Science of Medicine, 2023). Web technology now enables the whole document to be held as a single “page” with only the “questions” to AI rendered immediately visible — a facility not operational in PDF variants of the page (in contrast with the original). Reservations and commentary on the process of interaction with AI to that end have been discussed separately (Methodological comment on experimental use of AI, 2024).

Of potential relevance is the ability of readers to present the same questions (possibly revised) to any AI, especially following the further rapid development of such facilities and their access to a wider variety of sources in the future. Especially significant is the ability of AI to interrelate disparate themes in an innovative manner.

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