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Figure 2. Left: A “stable” outline of the armed USAF Predator UAV (i.e., MQ-1). Right: An “unstable”
or “rocking” oscillation of a bistable illusion of two incommensurable images formed with the same
2-D data to produce a sketch of a young woman looking over her right shoulder or of an old woman
glancing downward and to her left

members as first a prosecutor's case is presented
to them followed by a defense attorney's case, but
specifically not in the partisan minds of the pros-
ecutor or defense attorney, unless they are seeking
a compromise; or not in the minds of a predator
organization or its prey M&A target organization
but more likely in the observers more neutral to
the M&A process but while not being neutral to
making a profit; in Lawless et al., 2009).
A democratic space could be defined as a
space where decisions characterized by SPHOs
are made by majority rule (e.g., jury, political, or
faculty decisions); the lack of an SPHO identi-
fies decisions made by minority (consensus) or
authoritarian rules (e.g., decisions common to
military, authoritarian government or CEO busi-
ness decisions) (Lawless et al., 2007).
The key to building the abstract representations
necessary to construct an SPHO may be to locate
opposing clusters of the shared interpretations of
concepts geospatially across physical space or
via a socio-psychological network anchored or
mapped to physical network space. SPHOs should
generalize to entertainment or stories. Similar to
a decision process involving drivers and neutrals,
we propose that a story or stage production, as
found by Hasson and his colleagues (2004) in

their study of inter-subjectivity among viewers
of a Clint Eastwood movie, engages and holds
an audience's attention with this rocking process.
This insight suggests that the reverse engineering
of terrorist organizations may be possible (Law-
less et al., 2007).
The operators A and B are community interac-
tion matrices that locate social objects interdepen-
dently, ι , in social space (shared conceptual space)
that are in turn separately anchored (embeded or
situated) in geospatial or physical space. ι states
are non-separable and non-classical; disturbances
collapse ι states into classical information states.
Two agents, one as a President of a Telemedicine
firm and the second as the firm's Chief Technol-
ogy Officer, meet near the President's office, the
choice of seating location reflecting the relative
social power of the President over the subordinate
CTO, but the second holding a skill set prized by
the organization and its competitors that permits
the two to negotiate while both are aware of their
different functions and relative social ranks in the
organization (Ambrose, 2001), generating bistable
social perspectives that reflect the separate social
constituencies that drive compromises (Wood et
al., 2009); e.g., in contrast to the gridlock in the
Hanford cleanup driven by its consensus-ruled