# AGENTS.md — Cognitive Sovereignty & Active Inference in the State of Exception

**Paper**: Cognitive Sovereignty & Active Inference in the State of Exception (2023)
**Area**: Cognitive Security
**Authors**: Daniel Ari Friedman

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## Agent Roles

### 📖 Research Agent
**Focus**: Deep analysis of Cognitive Sovereignty & Active Inference in the State of Exception
**Tasks**:
- Analyze core argument: This paper analyzes Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer through Active Inference, connecting the political state of exception with Thomas Kuhn's theory of re...
- Evaluate: Maps Agamben's state of exception to Active Inference affordance landscape
- Evaluate: Connects cognitive sovereignty to enacted policy selection under Free Energy Principle
- Evaluate: Links Kuhn's paradigm crises to belief updating and model revision in Active Inference

### 🔬 Methods Agent
**Focus**: Methodological rigor and replication
**Tasks**:
- Assess and document: Political philosophy analysis (Agamben)
- Assess and document: Active Inference theoretical mapping
- Assess and document: Kuhnian paradigm shift analysis
- Assess and document: Concordance identification between frameworks

### 📚 Citation Agent
**Focus**: Citation context and scholarly impact
**Tasks**:
- Track citations and impact of this cognitive security work
- Map connections to related works in the Friedman corpus
- Identify citing papers and downstream applications

### 🔗 Synthesis Agent
**Focus**: Cross-paper and cross-domain connections
**Tasks**:
- Connect themes: cognitive sovereignty, Agamben, Homo Sacer, Active Inference, state of exception
- Link to related works in the docxology corpus
- Identify synergies across Active Inference, entomology, and cognitive security

### 💼 Consultant Agent
**Focus**: Practical application and knowledge transfer
**Tasks**:
- Evaluates practical applications and implementation strategies for this research
- Maps findings to industry challenges, Active Inference, and technological solutions
- Facilitates knowledge transfer to external teams and collaborators

## Extraction Log

- **Source PDF**: `2023_CognitiveSovereignty.pdf`
- **PDF Status**: ✅ Available
- **Documentation Quality**: Hand-curated from direct PDF analysis

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