Cognitive Warfare: the New Battlefield Exploiting Our Brains
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The article discusses the concept of cognitive warfare, a new form of psychological manipulation, and the HN community responds with skepticism and concern about its implications and the vulnerability of modern society.
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The conventional members of society live lives of cognitive dissonance, there are mobs and mobs and mobs among you who want to devour some part or other of yours at your expense.
Cognitive warfare has always been prominent in driving our public narratives.