A Quantified Method for V.I.

Hey guys,

First I wanna say I'm so grateful for the warm welcome. I was not expecting my ideas about the quadrants to hit home so well with so many of you.

There seems to be a general curiosity about the topic and a few members ( @Ananke , @Lola , @Subteigh ) have asked me to elaborate. I don't want to intrude or overwhelm things. But if it's ok with the admins and members, I'm willing to share a bit more about these ideas.

But I should clarify that the model where these ideas come from isn't Socionics; although it's more similar to it than other theories. The model I use has an available quantification and logic behind every signal displayed -- not just for the 16 types and how they look, but why the 8 functions display the looks they do, how this crosses over into the 16 types, and also why the dichotomies display their signals. The 4 appearances of the quadrants are just one end-effects, naturally created from the results of this psycho-physical model.

Stage I

Psychological Description:

The role of Perception in the psyche is the synthesis of information. Data synthesis is the automatic population and correlation of information into the psyche absent of any conscious scrutiny of the data. As rightly defined by C.G.Jung, Perception is an irrational process, though not necessarily because the connections it makes are linked improperly, but because the links are formed incidentally, not through rational deduction. Associations made by the perception processes are made on the basis of shared attributes – data is connected so long as it relates to other data, independent of any rational justification for the association within parameters of laws or axioms.

Thus anomalies/contradictions in logic as well as ethics will exist in perception and go unchecked for as long as the data is not critiqued with a judgment process. Perception processes draw associations, while the judgment processes break associations that cause contradictions according to the judgment process’ criteria of measure. The process of discrimination, also known as Judgment, is the deliberate arrangement of incoming data into harmony; it is the recognition and elimination of contradiction – be it logically or ethically.

Physical Description:

Judgment is a process that determines where we stand on a matter or belief. It is the realm of conviction, decision-making and execution of those decisions. And because of this, when the body actively makes or executes a judgment, it becomes rigid and defensive of those convictions.

There is at once a sense that the person is standing behind their words, as though they have become the physical embodiment or guardian of those ideas. When a person is using judgment in real-time, this manifests in the body being stiffer and the movements of the hands and head being more straight and linear; directional and sharp with well-defined halts.

The muscles become tense, primarily around the head and neck, but this may extend to the entire body. The fingers may become taut, whether stretched out entirely or locked in a claw-like posture. The head in particular remains rigid, and when it moves it does so vertically or horizontally with quick, deliberate motions.

Were we to personify, for comparison’s sake, an individual wholly judgmental, such a person would never move except out of deliberation, their muscles would remain forever tightened and each of their movements would be like a sharp swing of a sword. Their every phrase would be a statement, spoken with a simultaneous rattling of the head up-to-down and left-to-right. And while surely no human is so unilaterally judgmental, the disposition of judgment generates this tendency to varying degrees in all persons.

No individual is continually emitting these signals, but at the very moments in which they do, their psychic disposition will certainly be one of conviction and closure. If we compare the words that accompany their expression, we will see traces of that same finality reflected. The correlation between judgment and bodily tension is so consistent that we need only to turn our attention, ever so slightly, to seeing its presence for it to become an unavoidable observation.

Perception

When the psyche is engaged in absorbing data it is not engaged in rejecting it, nor in selecting away what it finds irrelevant. The process of judgment marks the closure of receptiveness to new information, thus causing rigidity in the body as it defends the finite perimeter of an idea, but perception draws no such boundaries, nor is it concerned with standing behind a cause with an unyielding character. As such, when perception is engaged the body’s disposition is not restricted by definitive halts or tensions.

The body will appear altogether loose, receptive to movements and the whims of the environment or one’s own internal recollections. We have all seen someone in our circle of peers whose body sways as they talk, and their head swivels from shoulder to shoulder as their spine collaborates in this dance with a syncopated rhythm.

Their words flow as an unbroken stream of thoughts, often with no definite point to get across, but merely the relaying of an experience. To perception, the truth of reality is the immeasurable qualities contained therein, undisturbed and uncompromised, not what might be picked out and considered of most importance. All is of equal importance, and the task is turned toward assimilating it all in unison. For this reason, the flow of a strong perceiver’s thoughts will navigate and drift through an untold number of topics without any concern for a destination.

I must also note that this psycho-physical fluidity is not necessarily contingent on motion, although motion certainly reveals this fluidity most strikingly. Even within a sedentary posture, the body of a perceiver will carry the same adaptive quality.

To make use of a metaphor, if we liken judgment to a stone and perception to a small plant, then in the absence of wind the plant may be entirely still just as the stone, but it would be far less rigid and solid than the stone would be amidst the wind. The qualities of the plant remain the same, however their revelation awaits an occasion for contrast. It is in the way that the body moves from one state to another that we see the presence or absence of tension.

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Here is an example of a woman displaying J-type signals:

Her body is generally still, moving only when there is some accentuation to make or otherwise remaining steady and contained. She does plenty of eyebrow raises, hand gestures, head nods and the like, in order to communicate the conviction of her delineations. The finality in her words is echoed by the linearity in her movements.

In contrast, below we see someone displaying P-type signals:

Chapelle's body is not well delineated, but instead remains receptive to movement and also drifts constantly alongside his absorption of the environment. As the interview proceeds, he allows himself to be influenced and guided by the interviewer and his suggestions. Rather than having definitive halts and a firm posture, his eyes wander about (with his thoughts) as he takes in reality. He interacts playfully with little enactments (i.e. "He's getting stronger") and adjusts to the content. Perception is impresssionistic, unstructured and receptive. When he does make delineated gestures, they are of a far less tense or directive form, emerging instead from a natively fluid mental landscape.

Every person has judgment and perception, so everyone will have both of these signals, but the ratio of these signals we find in a person will directly coincide with their relative level of decisiveness of mind (J) and receptiveness to information (P) they hold.

Note: these signals lean more toward describing Je and Pe, as they are an easier couple to discuss as an intro topic.

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A Quantified Method for V.I.