Informational Control: From Parasitoids to Propaganda

The article unfolds the concept of informational control introduced in "Inforeality of Living Matter" v1.1 (§4.6) and refined through the concept of active distortion in "Information Field of the Subject" v1.2 (§4.1). The main thesis: informational control is a single structural pattern reproduced at different levels of the 7FM program. The carrier differs (parasitoid vs propagandist), but the structure is preserved: asymmetry, absence of a common code, overwriting of the behavioral program, recursiveness. The concept is defined through four features: agency, directionality, asymmetry, recursiveness. It is shown that these four features are present both in the parasitoid systems of level F2 (Ophiocordyceps, Dicrocoelium, Toxoplasma, hairworms, parasitoid wasps) and in the human forms of manipulation of level F3 (propaganda, advertising, social algorithms, disinformation, gaslighting); moreover, three key features coincide fully, while recursiveness at F2 is weaker than at F3. The distinction between informational control and communication is examined: absence of a common code, absence of symmetry, opposition of interests, result in the form of overwriting the behavioral program rather than mutual response. Connection is made with the metrics of the series: SQ (semantic quantum) as the measure of the volume of what was overwritten, HII (hierarchical informational immunity) as the mechanism of resistance, IDC (information-distorting circuit) as the technological implementation at level F3, disinformology as the meta-science of systemic distortion. The article correlates with contemporary studies of systemic disinformation and cognitive metaparasitism. The ontological status is discussed: informational control is not a new category but a mode of informational interaction. Ethical and methodological consequences, as well as open questions, are formulated. Version 1.6. License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.