Welcome. This is an introductory text (the first email) to this
mbtiplus list. I wish to outline some points etc that will be of interest and may elicit some questions from
you the reader.
Through the analysis of the general method we, as a species, use to categorise, we can identify the qualities of
this general method in our more specialised categories.
In the IDM material we identify a set of basic qualities
derived from basic neurocognitive processes and as such just out of consciousness. These qualities seem to be derived
from the use of dichotomies to derive meaning where the recursion of a dichotomy (and
so the refinement through self-referencing of a defining dichotomy) creates an ever increasing set of 'raw' qualities.
These raw qualities form a set of general qualities that are recruited and applied to a specific context and from
that association a lexicon is formed that aids in communicating the specifics of the qualities-to-context relationship.
Thus, from the linking of sameness - the set of generally invarient qualities - with that of difference - the specific
context - we derive meaning that allows us to form a specialisation for further study and communication.
The 'further study' is where we 'stay in the box' in that we recruit the basic qualities and apply them to themselves
in the form of hyperbolic development (N2 rather than 2N - the whole set of qualities is
applied to itself) and use these derived qualities as sources of analogy to describe differences of expression
WITHIN a particular qualitity given changing contexts.
For example, if I have qualities of 000 and 111 I can derive 'finer' distinctions by applying this set to itself
to give us:
000-000 = pure '000'
000-111 = 'aspects of 111 within 000'
111-000 = 'aspects of 000 within 111'
111-111 = pure '111'
etc.
I can then take these analogies and declare them as 'real' qualities represented as:
000000
000111
111000
111111
The MBTI is the product of one of these qualities-context relationships where the context is that of categorising
human personalities. In other words the IDM material identifies qualities used by the species to derive meaning
and as such these are universals in the form of feelings. The linking of these universals to a context elicits
a lexicon used to describe details of that link, the association of feeling to a specific text associated with
a context. Here we focus on the MBTI, elsewhere we focus on the IDM link to Mathematics
and elsewhere we focus on the IDM link to the I Ching.
The IDM material derives eight basic qualities based on patterns of differentiations (D) and integrations (I) (and
represented in bits form (BInary digiTS) ranging from 111 to 000). A comparative analysis shows that these eight
generic qualities can be mapped to the specific MBTI categories, the local, particular expressions of mapping feelings
to personality categorisations, thus:
DDD (111) - XSTP
DDI (110) - XSFP
DID (101) - XNTJ
DII (100) - XNTP
IDD (011) - XSTJ
IDI (010) - XSFJ
IID (001) - XNFJ
III (000) - XNFP
We can take a step 'back' to identify temperaments of:
DD - Sensation Seekers
DI - Solution Seekers (problem solvers)
ID - Security Seekers
II - Identity Seekers
We can put these into phrases where the second term operates within the context set by the first:
DD - I differentiate to differentiate.
DI - I differentiate to integrate.
ID - I integrate to differentiate.
II - I integrate to integrate.
As we add additional terms so the phrases extend themselves but always in the form of general-to-particular, reflecting
a hierarchic development where all previous terms set the context within which operates the next term. The above
temperament associations reflect the particular expressions in the Keirsey Temperament Checker as reflecting refinements of the D/I dichotomy
used by our species to derive meaning.
We can also flesh-out the D and I patterns into four universals linked with a qualifying context-derived dichotomy:
DDD, III - focus on wholeness
DDI, IID - focus on static relationships
DID, IDI - focus on partsness
DII, IDD - focus on dynamic relationships
The four universals can be re-labelled reflecting a more 'feeling' sense of identification:
wholeness - focus on BLENDING ( a sense of oneness, or seeking of)
statics - focus on BONDING (sharing the same space with another but retaining identity of self)
parts - focus on BOUNDING (a sense of sharp distinctions, of 'them' from 'us', 'fact' from 'fiction')
dynamics - focus on BINDING ( a sense of development through time - sharing space but able to break the relationship)
We can form analogies of these terms with the set of qualities we associate with numbers:
BLENDING - WHOLE numbers
BOUNDING - PART numbers (rational numbers)
BONDING - Static relationships (irrational numbers)
BINDING - Dynamic relationships (imaginary numbers)
From these basics we derive:
Complex numbers (rational+irrational+imagined where whole numbers are 'in' the set of rational numbers and rational+irrational
are the set of 'Real'numbers)
Quarternions
Octonions
There is a development pattern here that reflects exponential development (2^N) at work:
representation of real numbers - single digit - 1
representation of complex numbers - a pair - 2
representation of quarternions - a quartet - 4
representation of octonions - an octet - 8
These 'algebras' break down beyond octonions, validating the focus on eight fundamentals that serve as sources
of meaning, as derived from the recursion of differentiation&integration, aka objects&relationships, aka
WHAT&WHERE. Our focus for now will be on the basic categories of differentiations and integrations expressed
as blend, bond, bound, bind.
The adding of a qualifying dichotomy to these four basic categories makes our set of basic, useable, qualities
eight in number. For example, using the qualifying dichotomy of expand/contract we have:
A feeling of expansive blending - DDD - qualities associated with the MBTI category of XSTP
A feeling of expansive bonding - DDI - qualities associated with the MBTI category of XSFP
A feeling of expansive bounding - DID - qualities associated with the MBTI category of XNTJ
A feeling of expansive binding - DII - qualities associated with the MBTI category of XNTP
A feeling of contractive binding - IDD - qualities associated with the MBTI category of XSTJ
A feeling of contractive bounding - IDI - qualities associated with the MBTI category of XSFJ
A feeling of contractive bonding - IID - qualities associated with the MBTI category of XNFJ
A feeling of contractive blending - III - qualities associated with the MBTI category of XNFP
What we are doing here is mapping generic feelings, sourced in patterns of differentiations and integrations,
to more specific MBTI states where the MBTI terms reflect the refined categorisation of the feelings.
The success of such categorisations is that when 'correctly' structured they cause 'resonance' within the individual
and as such reflect species communications through resonance.
To these basic feelings we can add exaggerations in the form of the category of emotions we most commonly use,
where the positive/negative emotions stem from the recursion of a dichotomy - that of fight/flight. This is covered in detail elsewhere where the focus is on 'raw' emotions out of which emerge 'refinements'.
Given these basic categorisations, when put in their 'bit' form, we can identify patterns stemming from the method
of derivation (recursion) where the whole is encoded in all parts and as such each persona 'type' can be flesh-out
through analogy to all other types and as such we can extend the basic 16 of the MBTI to over 16 million+.
The properties and methods of this process will be covered on this list.
Regards,
Chris Lofting