Social Progress
Understanding the evolutionary trajectory of information processing and societal development through socionics theory.
Psychological Function Domains
The four fundamental aspects of human information processing
Sensing
Physical Body
Materialistic and involved functions
Material object
Feeling
Soul • Relationships
Emotions • Subjective Reaction
Animated
Psyche
Intuiting
Religion • Higher powers
Insight • Distant goals
Imagination
A look at yourself from the outside
Thinking
Progress
Intelligence • Technology
Everything can be explained
Process Directions
Two fundamental approaches to understanding and organizing information
Unfolding
From part to whole
From element to system
From simple to complex
Up the system levels
Folding
From whole to part
From system to element
From complex to simple
Down the system levels
Temporal Processing Patterns
How different types navigate through time and process temporal information
Time Line
Unfolding Temporal Intuiting
Types: Critic (ILI), Dramatist (EIE), Humanist (EII)
Looks at the present from the past.
Folding Temporal Intuiting
Types: Lyricist (IEI), Entrepreneur (LIE), Analyst (LII)
Looks at the present from the future.
Systems Orientation
The spectrum between societal structures and natural organizational patterns
Societal Formations
Forgive the offender
Large Groups
State
Bureaucratic laws
Presumption of innocence
Politics, elections, lobbying, coalitions
A unified centralized army
Well-established process
Natural Formations
Evil must be punished
Small Groups
Nature's hierarchy
Laws of nature
Discard of the non-viable
The strong dominate the weak
Guerrilla warfare, mobile groups
Satisficing result
Information Society Development
The evolutionary stages of computational and information processing systems
Classical Computing
Classical AI
Unfolding
Discrete (0/1)
+ Quantum Computing
QAI
Unfolding
Continuous
+ Unknown System
Folding
Discrete
+ Nature Processes
Folding
Continuous