Given the IDM material on meaning creation, so the recursion of the differentiate/integrate dichotomy by the brain gives us a finite set of qualities usable to categorise whatever we wish, and that includes personalities.
In part of the IDM material we have identified a set of core categories, their qualities sourced in the IDM-identified qualities, that well describe the statics and dynamics of social, economic, and political conditions. We identified four generic categories of Production, Filtration, Distribution, and Exchange.
These categories 'fit' social, economic, and political conditions and since these conditions are contexts into which individuals are born/placed, so they 'push' our instincts/habits, and in doing so refine and/or create instincts/habits over generations, but note that that push is selective where a 'production' context will push buttons, instincts, derived from production activity or favouring such. As such these categories also 'fit' psychological conditions; in other words all individuals reflect properties of the four core categories but a mixture of nature and nurture can lead to the favouring of one category over the others; of being in, developing in, integrating with, a particular context.
What we witness here, with the context influencing the individual who in turn can influence the context, is a feedback loop based on dynamics of positive and negative forms of feedback - forms that are specialist expressions of the basic differentiating/integrating dichotomy.
Using the IDM template together with the characteristics of the other specialisations derived from recursion (emotions, I Ching categories, Chinese five phase etc) we can extend the four categories into eight and the eight into sixty-four categories usable to describe a persona (a mask that we can put on lightly or 'blend' with it forever).
The main point about recursion is that it is self-referencing and as such encodes the whole in all parts. What this means is that built-in to the product of recursion is the ability to describe itself through self-referencing where that referencing is through use of analogy/metaphor, but analogy/metaphor to what? ... to other qualities that form the set of qualities used as a form of language.
As we have shown elsewhere, the recursion of differentiate/integrate will create a set of qualities, as ordered pairs, that are used to describe 'all there is'. Since the vastness of the universe limits our making 1:1 associations of a qualility with 'out there', so these qualities are used many times to describe similar and different things/events. What is implied here is that, as categories for communications, these qualities are used in the majority in the form of analogies/metaphors rather than literal associations. What makes the DIFFERENCES is (a) the linking of a quality to a particular context and (b) the labelling of that link to ensure it is recognisable as 'different' from any other 'like' association.
Given this focus on analogy/metaphor, so the core categories of production, filtration, distribution, and exchange are used as sources of analogy/metaphor, such that analogy gives us reference to a persona that is 'like' filtration etc.
The point here is that to describe X I must use other categories of the same set of categories to which X belongs - this being due to the finite nature of the core qualities used to describe 'all there is'.
In the IDM material, we discover that the use of recursion to derive the categories adds a perspective more often hidden from observation - namely that ALL of the categories contribute to the expression of EACH quality and we can identify this contribution. Thus I can have category X reflecting the expression of category Z through X and that described by analogy to the qualities represented by category Y.
If we use the 'bit' form of representations (1/0) we can recurse this dichotomy three times to give us eight representations of the four qualities:
000 - Filtration (unconditional) [integration]
001 - Filtration (conditional)
010 - Internal Distribution (consumption)
011 - Re-Production (cultivating production)
100 - Production ('new' paradigms etc)
101 - External Distribution
110 - Exchange, cooperative
111 - Exchange, competitive [differentiation]
To each of these are mapped particular psychic states. Furthermore, if we continue the recursion we will find that ALL of these qualities will appear in EACH of them, showing the nature of recursion and so self-referencing. Thus with recursion we move from eight to 64 categories, from 64 to 4096, from 4096 to 16+million and all from self-referencing and so never moving 'out' of the 'box'.
Since we are just recursing 'differentiate/integrate' so ANY other dichotomies applied recursively can be used as sources of analogy/metaphor to other dichotomies due to them all sharing the IDM template. Thus, with the above qualities we can draw-in (a) the trigrams of the I Ching and (b) the categories of human emotions as sources of meaning usable to 'flesh out' our persona categories derived from producers, filterers, distributors, and exchangers.
In IDM we map out the basic qualities and associate them with bit representations as:
000 - Contractive Blending (wholeness through integration)
001 - Contractive Bonding (static relationships through integration)
010 - Contractive Bounding (partness through integration)
011 - Contractive Binding (dynamic relationships through integration)
100 - Expansive Binding (dynamic relationships through differentiation)
101 - Expansive Bounding (partness through differentiation)
110 - Expansive Bonding (static relationships through differentiation)
111 - Expansive Blending (wholeness through differentiation)
These qualities directly map to the above eight categories of the production, distribution, filtration, exchange
set. Furthermore, they also map to the qualities represented in the trigrams of the I Ching:
000 - Earth
001 - Mountain
010 - Water
011 - Wind
100 - Thunder
101 - Fire
110 - Lake
111 - Heaven
All of these qualities also map to the qualities represented in the generic categories of human emotions:
000 - fear
001 - grief
010 - rejection
011 - anticipation
100 - surprise
101 - acceptance
110 - sexual love
111 - anger
Given these four seemly 'different' sets of qualities, we will show how we can derive a typology of personas from
them, and from there delve into core archetypes, core universals, we all share as humans to a degree where these
universal 'push' individuals. This latter perspective stems from understanding how the brain extracts parts from
a whole and so how we can extract from each 'type' the expressions of ALL of the others THROUGH that type.