The Architecture of Illusion: Network Opacity and Strategic Escalation

The Architecture of Illusion: Network Opacity and Strategic Escalation

The Connected Minds model: agents reason iteratively but observe a sample biased by their network position, so opacity makes them overestimate others and escalate.

February 2026 · Raman Ebrahimi, Sepehr Ilami, Babak Heydari, Isabel Trevino, Massimo Franceschetti