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they will evolve. It means that I need to acquire tacit knowledge as fast as them; tacit
knowledge, not in individual terms, but in cultural terms, in complete cooperation terms.
So this means that I really need to understand their culture. And as I said at the beginning
that is difficult. Dr. Erez talked about the word 'peace'. He reminds me of Carlson
Clausewitz on war in 1821. He said (and excuse my translation as I read it in French) -
“War - by other means…”. Meaning that there is something over and above war that
may rule. War is just a bit of the more complete problem. But that is a Western view of
the world that comes from the enlightenment of 200 years. If you asked someone, before
Clausewitz, what war meant, it was a completely different thing and even now, in
Western culture, I am not sure that everybody agrees with that. Now, let us talk about
other cultures which I simply do not know. I know they think differently. In order to
acquire tacit knowledge, I would have to almost believe all those things. That is the most
difficult part of it. That is what frightens me. Because if I need tacit knowledge to really
understand in real-time what is going to happen, of course I can be helped by computers,
but there is something over and above this which has to do with culture and with
cooperation. I do not really know the answer to these matters; I just wanted to reiterate
how difficult it is.
Vellone
: I do not have anything to add to your discussion, but just one thing about
evolution, or how terrorism will change in the future. Yes, this is a problem, but the
solution may be within this system, with open source investigation. Because there are
relatively big groups which cannot change immediately, things do not ever change
abruptly, but change with some advance signs. If we are able to catch the right signs in
advance, maybe you can predict what could happen the following day. Of course this is
strictly correlated to the process of human knowledge but that could also be the only way
to predict evolution in this field.
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