We start each Personality Spectrum Filter discussion by reminding the reader ...

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... what ConserveLiberty means by a Personality Filter. ← Click there.

Now that the declaration that "our personality filters have an organic, genetic basis" is out of the way ... it is also important to keep in mind that since authors are endowed with their own foundational filters, these posts are always written from an unavoidable perspective and expression personality bias.
The biological and genetic basis underlying human personality is expected to be quite complex, with many component parts. By no means is it implied or should it be construed that the various Filters, Ensembles, and Tapestries are each the result of a single gene. Rather, an ensemble of biological parts are necessary to be expressed and put together just right so that a person's individual place on the various behavioral phenotype spectrums are determined.
The notion of "Tapestry" (as an ensemble of independent ensembles and filters) is a great analogy for describing the wondrous complexity of the various genetic and environmental influences that together result in the behavioral and perception phenotypes that generate our perceived experiences of and reaction to All That Is as it interacts with us.

Using music generation as another exemplary analogy, click on the image nearby to understand ConserveLiberty's use of the term "tapestry" and watch at least one of the videos.

"Getting to an understanding of ... Behavior, or Cognition, or Morphological Structure, or the Mechanism of Action of Function, or specific "component traits", or ...

... is like putting together a complex 1500-piece puzzle. Each piece to that grand puzzle is itself a puzzle composed of many, many pieces, perhaps 1500 as well. All fit perfectly together to make the next piece that fits perfectly together with the piece which its mate.

Each grand puzzle is a reproduction from the "one that came before." And if one piece in the grand puzzle is different than its counterpart before (and at least one is) ... then the whole puzzle is different. Perhaps slightly. Perhaps more."

- David Apollo

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