Why we have personality types

[Ex-User (8886)]

Why people are so different? Is it creation of evolution? Do you think variant personalities provide more pros or cons? Do other animals have variant personality types?

 

[doncarlzone]

It's clearly a result of evolution. As a social animal it can only be an advantage to have different personalities performing different task. And yes, you do have different personalities in other animals too. My parents have two French Bulldogs, one is a quiet reserved type that only gets to the door if it knows for sure someone is there. The other one is incredibly outgoing and will jump up in the middle of sleeping at any sound. It's easy to see the pros and cons in both types nature wise.

Also, if it wasn't an advantage, any organisation for profit would only consist of one type, which is never the case.

 

[Ex-User (8886)]

Ok. But wouldn't be better, if everyone were same and balanced?
Varied personalities make conflictes, if everyone would be same, everyone would understand each other. Do we really need specialization?

 

[nanook]

100% brainpower to a task is better than 6.25 (100/16) percent. evolution does not shy away from conflict, unfortunately. god is such an asshole. perhaps type is really the difference between humans and monkeys. some would say language, but what is there to talk about, if all were to share one mind. monkeys are already complex enough, to have politics, but some animals do not have societies. would we realize that we need each other, without differences? some eat their young, because they have no concept of individuality - and no individuality either. would we ever have found out about typology, if carl jung had payed 6.25% of his attention to psychology? one of us would be like "Hm, i think ... we might all be ONE TYPE, shouldn't we get along better?" and the others would be like "hahaha, he is having philosophical thoughts again, let's make food" "i want chocolate" "i want vanilla" "i want sex" "i want war" and all together: "NUDE FOOD-FIGHT!!!" "the winner gets to keep the philosopher's stone for the weekend"

 

[nanook]

it seems, in order to achieve something, to make decisions, there must be priorities, which means duality. everyone may have all the same functions somehow, but everyone has unique priorities. so everyone gives 100% brainpower to a set of priorities.

another questions is: could type have been prevented, from happening? we have so and so much dimensions in our intelligence/worldview. or quadrants, as integral theory would name it. inside, outside, static aspects - substance - objects - facts (S), dynamic aspects - change - trends - influence (N), what is doable in this situation, how can we act (T), what should be done or made possible, could be a desirable action or situation (F)).

given that decisions imply specific priorities for those quadrants, we need to have all possible combinations of priorities, meaning all types.

the only alternative is additional transcendence, meaning every individual masters all possible combinations of priorities and has situational criteria for choosing one combination at a time.

i'd assume this is the goal of evolution, but it could not have been the start of it. we discover type, discover the validity of other possibilities of priorities, learn to understand each other better.

by recognizing/differentiating all these different aspects of reality, we had no choice, but to fall apart into different types of preferred priorities.

and we probably had to differentiate these aspects in order to understand time and tools, that means to prepare for difficult changing situations. advanced tools involve time, preparedness.

 

[BigApplePi]

Why people are so different? Is it creation of evolution? Do you think variant personalities provide more pros or cons? Do other animals have variant personality types?

Since man is a social animal it should pay off to have varied personalities to deal with whatever groups come to confront in their environment. I believe I heard cheetas are endangered because due to inbreeding they are all more or less alike. This means they are vulnerable to being wiped out if their environment can come up with something that will defeat one. Defeat one and defeat them all. This provides for the fittest social group.

Another way of looking at it is there is a lot of randomness in our DNA. We are not rigidly put together. This makes for randomness within our construction.

 

[Ex-User (8886)]

do you think personality types are something similar to genetic variability? Wikipedia says not only cheetas have low genetic variability, also people.

 

[redbaron]

Have to dumb down psychology for the masses somehow.

 

[Minuend]

The same personality means an identical brain exposed to identical environment.

Not possible

Well, I guess there would also have to be an equal amount of hormones, immune system etc too.

Other than that, some personality traits would give a higher survival rate, yes.

 

[BigApplePi]

do you think personality types are something similar to genetic variability? Wikipedia says not only cheetas have low genetic variability, also people.

I don't know what Wiki says, but people have more things to vary than cheetas thus giving more variability even if overall low variability.

 

[Black Rose]

in -> process -> out
then loop.

We are energy systems, when a module subsystems is being used it directs energy.
Proteins are plastics that tell how to grow and create resistance.
The environment activates proteins to build modules.
Diversity of genetics need not be vast to gain huge effect.

Type is the configuration of utilized modules efficiently for circulated energy.