Social Progress
Understanding the evolutionary trajectory of information processing and societal development through socionics theory.
Cognitive 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 T
Types: Critic (ILI), Mentor (EIE), Humanist (EII)
Moves through time. Looks at the present from the past. Moves from the past to the present (then to the future).
Folding T
Types: Lyricist (IEI), Entrepreneur (LIE), Analyst (LII)
Goes in the opposite direction - looks at the present from the future. Projects the future onto the present.
Systems Orientation
The spectrum between artificial societal structures and natural organizational patterns
Artificial Formations
Forgive the offender
Large Groups
State
Bureaucratic (social) laws
"Presumption of innocence"
Politics, elections, lobbying, coalitions
A unified centralized army
Well-established process
Nature
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
Results
Information Society Development
The evolutionary stages of computational and information processing systems
Classical Computing
Artificial
Unfolding
Discrete (0/1)
+ Quantum Computing
Unfolding
Continuous
+ Unknown System
Folding
Discrete
+ Natural Processes
Folding
Continuous