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The Core layer contains the relatively stable foundation of the human system: processing capacity, sensory thresholds, temperamental baselines, and the biological architecture that everything else runs on. Core qualities change slowly and constrain what the rest of the system can do. Analogy: the processor, RAM, and battery of the system.
Derived
SOFTWARE
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The Derived layer contains learned, practiced, and installed patterns that run on top of Core hardware. Derived qualities can be updated, patched, and replaced through training and experience, but they are always constrained by what the underlying hardware can support. Analogy: applications, operating systems, and learned routines.
Quantum
CRASH STATES
40
The Quantum layer contains temporary mode-shifts in which the system’s normal operating parameters change significantly. Quantum states are not traits; they are state-episodes with identifiable entry conditions, characteristic dynamics, and natural resolution patterns. Analogy: blue screen of death, kernel panic, safe mode — or, for surge states, overclocking and turbo mode.
Emotional
WEATHER
43
The Emotional layer contains episodic affective programs with identifiable triggers, characteristic outputs, and natural resolution patterns. These are the weather of the human system: transient, recurrent, and context-sensitive. Rain is not a malfunction. Sadness is not a bug. Analogy: the atmospheric conditions that affect visibility, movement speed, and what is possible today.
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B01
Attention & Processing
Baseline capacities governing how information is taken in, held, and updated: attentional stability and switching, working memory, processing speed, thinking depth, pattern recognition, learning, cognitive flexibility, effort sustainment, metacognitive monitoring, time perception, need for cognition, and sensory sensitivity. The block groups elements by the perceptual–cognitive intake system they primarily serve, without assuming a single underlying mechanism.
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B02
Self-regulation & Execution
Baseline capacities for translating intention into action and inhibiting competing impulses: task completion tendency, impulse control, delay of gratification, and action orientation. The block groups elements by the impulse-and-action control system they primarily serve.
4
B03
Social Cognition & Self-Direction
Baseline capacities in two related but functionally distinct domains: social perception (approach, signal sensitivity, trust, status sensitivity) and self-direction under uncertainty (uncertainty tolerance, sense of internal coherence, initiative, goal clarification, planning horizon, structuring vs. improvising preference, direction stability, autonomy need, external-control tolerance, boundary assertion). The block groups elements by functional proximity within social perception and self-direction, without claiming a single mechanism spans both themes.
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B04
Threat & Self-preservation
Baseline capacities in threat detection and harm-risk regulation: threat detection sensitivity, harm avoidance, physical risk tolerance, social-evaluative risk tolerance, and loss aversion. The block groups elements by the protective-response system they primarily serve.
5
B05
Emotional Core
Baseline affective parameters — the dispositional set points and reactivities that shape emotional life: baseline valence, negative-affect and positive-reward reactivities, emotional variability, expressiveness, self-soothing capacity, outcome-expectation bias, frustration-expression style, and emotional differentiation. The block groups elements by their role in the affective baseline rather than by shared mechanism.
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B06
Aesthetics, Meaning & Social Bonds
Baseline capacities in two functionally adjacent domains: aesthetic and meaning sensitivity (aesthetic sensitivity, meaning sensitivity) and trust and social-bond dispositions (general trust, vulnerability acceptance, betrayal sensitivity, social safety need, grudge holding, cooperation bias, team orientation, reciprocity sensitivity). The block groups elements by functional proximity across these two themes rather than by a single underlying mechanism.
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B07
Status & Influence
Baseline capacities in status orientation and susceptibility to influence: dominance drive, assertiveness, susceptibility to influence, and influence via status. The block groups elements by the status-and-influence system they primarily serve.
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B08
Empathy & Prosociality
Baseline capacities in empathic response and prosocial motivation: cognitive empathy, affective empathy, compassionate motivation, emotional contagion susceptibility, and prosocial honesty norm. The block groups elements by their role in empathic and prosocial functioning.
5
B09
Conflict, Aggression & Social Exposure
Baseline capacities in two functionally related domains: response to opposition and aggression (conflict tolerance, anger propensity, aggression tendency, offense sensitivity, forgiveness readiness) and social-evaluative exposure (social anxiety, social boldness, impression management drive, performance under observation). The block groups elements by functional proximity across these two themes rather than by a single mechanism.
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B10
Attachment & Relational Norms
Baseline capacities in attachment needs and relational norms: attachment need, separation anxiety, fairness sensitivity, social responsibility, and boundary respect. The block groups elements by their role in relational functioning.
5
B11
Leadership & Mentoring
Baseline capacities in leadership disposition and mentoring orientation: leadership drive, authority acceptance, persuasion capacity, and mentoring orientation. The block groups elements by the leadership-and-mentoring dispositions they primarily serve.
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B12
Communication
Baseline capacities in communicative style and signaling: verbal expressiveness, nonverbal signal clarity, social calibration, directness, conflict approach, and social humor use. The block groups elements by their role in the communication system.
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B13
Autonomy & Agency
Baseline capacities in self-governance, agency, and integrity: agency, self-discipline, internal standards, integrity, and self-consistency. The block groups elements by their role in autonomous self-direction and personal integrity.
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B14
Instinctive Core
Evolutionarily grounded drives that shape motivation across life domains: threat avoidance, resource acquisition, status seeking, mate attraction, pair bonding, parental care, group belonging, ingroup loyalty, curiosity, play, and comfort seeking. The block groups elements by their status as baseline motivational drives, without claiming any single evolutionary mechanism.
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The Core layer contains the relatively stable foundation of the human system: processing capacity, sensory thresholds, temperamental baselines, and the biological architecture that everything else runs on. Core qualities change slowly and constrain what the rest of the system can do. Analogy: the processor, RAM, and battery of the system.
Derived
SOFTWARE
154
The Derived layer contains learned, practiced, and installed patterns that run on top of Core hardware. Derived qualities can be updated, patched, and replaced through training and experience, but they are always constrained by what the underlying hardware can support. Analogy: applications, operating systems, and learned routines.
Quantum
CRASH STATES
40
The Quantum layer contains temporary mode-shifts in which the system’s normal operating parameters change significantly. Quantum states are not traits; they are state-episodes with identifiable entry conditions, characteristic dynamics, and natural resolution patterns. Analogy: blue screen of death, kernel panic, safe mode — or, for surge states, overclocking and turbo mode.
Emotional
WEATHER
43
The Emotional layer contains episodic affective programs with identifiable triggers, characteristic outputs, and natural resolution patterns. These are the weather of the human system: transient, recurrent, and context-sensitive. Rain is not a malfunction. Sadness is not a bug. Analogy: the atmospheric conditions that affect visibility, movement speed, and what is possible today.