[alicebot-general] Big Five personality traits

[Chris Lofting]

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> bounces at list.alicebot.org] On Behalf Of Helio Perroni Filho
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> Subject: [alicebot-general] Big Five personality traits
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> Have you ever seen this?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_factor_model
> 
> I think this could be very interesting refrenece
> material for building a methodology of bot building.
> 

>From the context of foundation-setting, not as good as this:
http://members.iimetro.com.au/~lofting/myweb

Here we focus on what is behind all of our categorisations and that includes
personas. The reference you gave is the 'academic' focus on typology - there
are others, the most commercially popular being the MBTI. There is a journal
etc to cover the MBTI research - http://www.capt.org but be warned, they are
very protective of their product! ;-)

Our brains derive categories from self-referencing the
differentiate/integrate dichotomy - aka WHAT/WHERE. The resulting categories
reflect the self-referencing at the genetic level allowing for customisation
of members of a collective to serve that collective in some particular way -
e.g. drones or warriors or queens to alpha males/females. The categories are
GENERAL and so serve the COLLECTIVE not the individual where there is no
recognisation of such. The self-referencing involved encoded all categories
in each - they appear discrete but in fact are all entangled. As such,
included in the categories are those representing 'begin' and 'end' and so
each category has their version of 'begin' and 'end' and so a sense of
'purpose'.

With OUR species we have moved beyond our primate, particular, natures
through the development of individual consciousness (starts about 24 months
after birth). That SINGULAR nature works like Darwin's "mutation" in that it
serves as a 'random' element in behaviours and so allows for 'new'
perspectives to emerge by the minute rather than over hundreds/thousands of
years. Thus at the singular level there is the ability to CHOOSE purpose.

The singular as such can (a) serve itself (or tries to! - see anything on
existentialism) or (b) aid the particular, species-nature being, achieve its
goal, its purpose, through refined customisation of skills etc.

The entanglement I mentioned is an artefact of the methodology of
self-referencing and so applies to anything self-referenced.

Chris.