The Psychoinformatic Complexity of Humanness and Person-Situation Interaction

Sood, Suraj

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“…Psychologicality has evolved in many present-day societies (particularly North-Western ones) to become more informational. In light of this, an explicitly psychoinformatic view of humans such as that offered by Sood [20] will be necessary.…”

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“…A holarchic system of formalisms that situates "psychological reality" [17] as its own metaphysical domain, and further delineates the sub-domain's essential subject matter The above contributions are then related to the fields of informatics and psychoinformatics. The result will be a "holarchic psychoinformatics" (HPI) related to the psychoinformatic complexity (PIC) paradigm [20] that unites psychoinformatics with complexity science.…”

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“…It may be partially inferred from this latter fact that psychologists understand personality better than situationality. In part to ameliorate this situation, Sood [20] formalized person-situation interaction in the following manner…”

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“…Where equals "person", equals "situation", equals "structure", equals "trait", equals "state", equals "process", equals "mind", and equals "behavior" [20]. (Traits and states are treated as distinct types of psychological structures.)…”

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“…Sood [20] introduced the term "psychoinformatic complexity" (PIC) to denote a paradigm marrying psychoinformatics (as defined above), and complexity science as defined by Bar-Yam [28]. Hancock et al's work [7]-which utilized an algorithm of computational complexity ( 2 ) to infer, characterize, and visualize the emotional context arising from online social discourse-was cited as fulfilling PIC's necessary and sufficient criteria for membership.…”

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Holarchic Psychoinformatics: A Mathematical Ontology for General and Psychological Realities

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2019

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This article builds upon a formal person-situation framework by offering formalisms for its subcomponents, as well as for reality more generally. More specifically, a system of mathematical formalisms is offered relating the following constructs: holarchy, reality, and psychological reality. Psychological reality is offered a portmanteau in the neologism, "psychologicality". Psychologicality denotes mind and behavior, both of which are subcomponents of Sood's [20] person-situation formula. The mathematics offered is woven into a broader, subjective-objective ontology that is required for any truly representative virtual world.The result from above, when synthesized with informatics, is a novel "holarchic informatics" and more specific holarchic psychoinformatics (HPI). Holarchic psychoinformatics is related with Sood's psychoinformatic complexity (PIC) paradigm.The aim of this article is to build upon "third force"-i.e., existential-humanistic (E-H)-psychology. We depart from more traditional approaches in defining E-H psychology as the study of the existence of human minds and behaviors as emergent, interdependent properties of people's interactions with situations. This definition results from the enactive person-situation framework as situated within PIC.

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The Platonic-Freudian Model of Mind: Defining “Self” and “Other” as Psychoinformatic Primitives

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2020

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As "nurtural" (rather than merely natural) kinds of human beings, people are complex and multifaceted. Any complete human science would require a complete theory of persons. Accomplishing the latter is the core objective of the present article. First, a feature list first laid out in [1] is summarized. This list is briefly critiqued. Next, the concept of person engaged with is expanded with the addition of nine novel features. These features follow from "holarchic psychoinformatics" [2], which was first propounded as a step forward from Sood's analytic treatment of third-force, existential-humanistic psychology. Person is formalized as a function of self and other; they are also granted to be romantic, existential, humanistic, chemical, environmental, hedonic and eudaimonic (happiness-seeking), conservative, and liberal. These are in addition to persons being physical, biological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual. Sood's holarchic view of persons is enlarged. Psychologically, augmented cognition as an established field of research and practice begets the formal studies of augmented affect, augmented behavior, and augmented motivation. All such interdisciplinary fields are required for the human-computer interactionist's study of augmented mind, more broadly. Additionally, this article builds on the person-situation interaction framework formalized in [1]. It does so by adding a formalization following from the discussion of psychological situations put forward by Rauthmann, Sherman, and Funder in [3]. The formalization of psychological situations sets them as a function of cues, characteristics, and classes. Further psychological equations that follow from this article's formalisms of person and situation, when considered along with Sood's formulae for mind and behavior, are then presented.

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Holarchic HCI and Augmented Psychology (“AugPsy”)

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2021

Augmented Cognition

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Consciousness enables experience, and each can be placed on a spectrum [1,14]. Experience is more robust and multidirectional, though the possibility exists for it to be bidirectional (particularly for the geometrician working along a line, but also generally when considering between two given options). Consciousness is synonymous informally with awareness. When one is conscious, they are aware, and vice versa. Awareness can be quantified in terms of being "greater" or "lesser". For example, one may be more aware of certain aspects of experience than others given selective attention.Experience is the basic unit of analysis for phenomenology. While experience may be operationalized as qualia to address "what things are like" [20], the former may also be treated as a formal primitive. Phenomena are events as they appear to or present themselves for conscious perceivers. In ordinary use, experiences are assumed to be significant events or happenings.Phenomenal experience is qualitative. It is characterized as such by description through adjectives (e.g., "good" or "bad"). Experiences can be categorized into types, e.g. into the learning kind (as in the "learning experience"). If an experience is rich, then it has richness that may be qualified-described further in terms of what makes it so-or quantified. Growth may result from the victorious experience. This is so in battle-based role playing games (RPGs), where successfully defeating one's opponent earns experience points that contribute to the possible level-up of one or more of the player's team members (as in Pokémon and Fire Emblem, two of the most popular Japanese action-adventure RPG series).It is posited that the self, after being immersed in something greater than it, has potential to emerge greater than it was prior [2,3]. Positive psychology recognizes such an immersed state as being one of flow or engagement. Subjective immersion [6] can be reported on to certain extents of meaningfulness and accuracy. Immersion can be qualified, e.g. via description of an activity's meaning to the human actor, or perhaps quantified. Perhaps the optimal flow experience is only quantifiable as being infinitely enjoyable, enriching, engaging, and/or meaningful, among other possible measures.1 Augmented psychology was argued for in [11] with the proposal of augmented mind, including augmented cognition, affect, and conation. AugPsy may also include augmented body [66], consisting of the deviceattaching human and their technologically extended self [67]. The AugPsy program propounded in this chapter is to be distinguished from Augmented Psychology as the psychological intervention using metaphorical experiences in virtual reality (VR), conceived on the basis of hypothesized "last frontiers" of neuroscientific research [71].

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The Psychoinformatic Complexity of Humanness and Person-Situation Interaction

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Holarchic Psychoinformatics: A Mathematical Ontology for General and Psychological Realities

Holarchic Psychoinformatics: A Mathematical Ontology for General and Psychological Realities

The Platonic-Freudian Model of Mind: Defining “Self” and “Other” as Psychoinformatic Primitives

Holarchic HCI and Augmented Psychology (“AugPsy”)

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