Aspects regarding the information war: the alteration of reality Cover Image

Aspecte privind războiul informațional: alterarea realității
Aspects regarding the information war: the alteration of reality

Author(s): Iulian CHIFU
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: INFOSFERA - Revista de studii de securitate si Informații pentru Apărare
Keywords: post truth; post-fact; post-reality; post-humanity; populism; social media; sofism;

Summary/Abstract: The fourth and fifth generations of informational warfare are directly linked to the evolution of perception and a journey leading us from post-truth via post-factual approaches to post-humanity. If the post truth is about emotions that are influencing the perceptions and the attempt to alter perceptions at a large scale, especially due to interpretations of the reality, post-factual approach already deals with altering the facts and changing the past, so that the very reality is at stake. Moreover, if we move further, in the use of artificial intelligence, we reach a moment where our mind is at stake and the very processes of thinking, perceiving, understanding and knowing the reality are altered via the direct impact to our minds, when facing an intelligence that plays with enormous groups of big data, that know each of us in detail and is playing with all of us, individually, in real time, with effective psychological tools, in order to twist everything that we know. It’s no longer about perception or even facts, but about our own minds.

  • Issue Year: X/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 15-20
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian
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