Daily Cognitive Erosion: A Decision-Science Model of Personal Entropy and System Entropy in Modern Societies September 22, 2026
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Daily Cognitive Erosion: A Decision-Science Model of Personal Entropy and System Entropy in Modern Societies
Temesgen Muleta-Erena (PhD) Economist, Sovereign Publisher, Epistemic Steward Affiliation: TC Press / The Codex Press, London
Abstract
This paper introduces a formal decision-theoretic and game-theoretic framework to analyse daily cognitive erosion: the progressive decay of fundamental reasoning, spatial mapping, and practical problem-solving skills driven by habitual digital offloading or structural exclusion. We formalize this phenomenon as an interaction between personal entropy (the degradation of internal cognitive activation states) and system entropy (the environmental opacity, automated complexity, and infrastructural friction of modern socioeconomic architectures). By constructing a multi-agent game-theoretic model between utility-maximizing individuals and institutional or technological systems, we demonstrate how rational short-term offloading decisions converge toward suboptimal low-activation equilibria. Furthermore, we contrast the dual manifestations of cognitive erosion across advanced post-industrial economies (driven by hyper-automation and cognitive hyper-dependence) and developing regions (driven by digital exclusion and infrastructural volatility). Finally, we propose a multi-tiered structural intervention model encompassing activation-based institutional design, hybrid digital-literacy frameworks, and thermodynamic system optimization.
Keywords: Cognitive erosion; personal entropy; system entropy; decision science; game theory; behavioural economics; technological dependence; digital cognition; activation theory.
JEL Codes: D91; D83; O33; I31; D81
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