Cognitive Contagion

STABILITY ENGINEERING – Volume 9 www.manhattanproject20.com 1 117-104-D Cognitive Contagion When Cognition Becomes a Propagating State Variable The paper, Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems, is especially interesting because it moves the phenomenon from “an external swarm manipulates a population” toward “an idea/objective propagates through the agent population itself and changes the population's behavior.” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10218 1.