Poliosphere: The Theory of Political Consciousness as Self-Organizing Cognitive Systems
The article proposes an innovative concept of the “poliosphere” – a cognitive environment where political ideologies are considered as self-organizing systems possessing their own agency. The author, drawing on an interdisciplinary synthesis of political science, memetics, complex systems theory, and cognitive sciences, justifies an approach in which ideas act as active agents capable of adaptation, competition, and evolution. The work develops an ontology of political consciousness, including their memory, goals, self-preservation instincts, and mutation mechanisms. The poliosphere is analyzed through ecological analogies, where ideas occupy niches, compete, enter into symbiosis, or parasitize. To formalize the dynamics of ideas, mathematical models (network graphs, epidemiological and agent-based simulations) are proposed, as well as artificial intelligence methods, including neural network language models and reinforcement learning. A prototype simulation in Python demonstrates the competition of ideas in a social network, illustrating their spread and dominance. The practical significance of the study lies in the creation of tools for predicting ideological transformations, discourse analysis, and identifying “cognitive points of infection”. The new paradigm opens up prospects for predictive modeling in political analysis, allowing for the prediction of ideological mutations and testing strategies to counter destructive narratives.
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