# Closed-Loop Cognitive Attrition Closed-loop cognitive attrition is the article’s proposed offensive topology: **access → profile → perturb → observe → recalibrate**. ## Objective The loop seeks degradation of functional coherence rather than ordinary persuasion. Its target variables include orientation, trust, coordination, decision latency, morale, tempo, recruitment, financing, and behavioral endurance. Artificial intelligence becomes an [[Adaptive Governor]] when it senses outcomes and continuously changes targeting, timing, message form, friction, or delivery based on observed effects. ## Evidentiary boundary The loop is an analytical model. Individual personalization, recommendation, surveillance, or influence capabilities do not prove that an integrated autonomous attrition system is operating. Integration and actor control require independent evidence. ## Defensive inversion [[Cognitive Sovereignty Infrastructure]] mirrors the loop through **sense → authenticate → stabilize → inoculate → recover → adapt**. ## Source [[articles/Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Measures and Countermeasures#3. Measures: Closed-Loop Cognitive Attrition|Cognitive-Cyber Warfare — Measures]].