The Critical Thinking Personality Spectrum Ensemble is an essential Cognitive Function enabling Aptitude (comprehension), Innovation (out-of-the-box invention or improvement), and Likelihood Recognition (the full examination of multiple alternate ideas without the limitations of indoctrinated preference.)

With regard to personality, ConserveLiberty's primary interest is to focus on the biological (and thus genetic) components that have responsibility for the mechanisms of action (MOAs) leading to the behavior and perception phenotypes that the Filters enable.

However, all living organisms that interact with and adapt to their environments are "learning organisms". (And they all do or else their lineages perish.) Thus, all of "What We Are" is influenced to some degree by the environments we find ourselves needing to survive within. We adapt.

With regard to behavior and perception, the importance of learning and adaptation is particularly important. And, depending on the Filter, the Environment plays more or less of a role in the total Ensemble that comprises it.

With the Critical Thinking Ensemble, Environment plays a very significant role. More so than with, for example, the Reality Perception Personality Spectrum Ensemble. After all, Critical Thinking's primary role is to enable additional positive adaptation to the current environment. In other words - improvement.

Multiple things fall out of the fact that Environment plays a greater roll with the Critical Thinking Filter than with some of the others:

• It is more difficult to uncover all the biological components that create the Critical Thinking Ensemble. There are thousands.
• The clinically significant manifestations of the Critical Thinking Ensemble may often be due to environmental factors alone. Many times not. Skepticism is important in order to accurately understand the "Critical Thinking" machine.
• In the individual cases where environment plays the predominant role it may also be the case that changes in the environment, or changes in the way one decides to respond to his or her environment may be all that is necessary to manage one's Critical Thinking status in ways that are both productive and comfortable to live and engage with.

Be careful. Understand your strengths and limitations. Be skeptical of your understanding of what you think you want to be doing, and why. Be very cautious to avoid exposures to dramatic situations if you have an unpredictable and variable Critical Thinking Formation Ensemble. Especially if you have a lower functioning ability to discern what is Real from what is Imaginary. And be grateful for the advantages your Critical Thinking Formation Ensemble endows you with when it is appropriate and stable.

Conserve Your Liberty.

There will be another revision to this chapter. Watch for it if you find you are interested.

→ The Section above was last updated 11 Jul 2017 12:10 PDT ←

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There are many who have told me and reminded me and advised me over and over again of the importance of forgetting in order to make living easier. All types of things are bound together with "forgetting" in their narratives:

• "Forgiveness"
• "Getting along"
• "Moving Forward"
• ... and other things related to some notions of "Harmony"

I embrace all of those. But I am here to tell you that "forgetting" has nothing to do with any of the above if they are to be considered "Real." And it has nothing to do with Critical Thinking.

Memory, and remembrance, are absolutely essential to Living. Remembrance is absolutely essential to Truth and Understanding and Rational Thinking and Harmony. Forgetting is what a mind does as it degrades. Forgetting is simply a low effort way (once it is accomplished) of irreversibly censoring the past. And, as with all censorship, truth evaporates with it. Irreversibly.

• You want to Live? Move Forward.
• You want good Relationships? Get Along with those who are not committed to hating you.
• You want to find Harmony? Forgive the sincerely (truly) contrite. And Remember. And Be Real.

Can't do it? Won't do it? No problem, really. Soon enough, that from which you unfolded from, you will return to.

If you want to Comprehend and Innovate, then Remember. And Consider Alternates. And move toward The Real.

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The development of this chapter on the Critical Thinking Personality Spectrum Ensemble is ongoing. There is so much more to elaborate on that would be helpful for understanding how we are built to appropriately and productively comprehend and innovate upon that which we already have access to ... if we can.

That said, what little has been portrayed does offer some value until additional updates to this chapter are written. As new versions are created, the title's version number will continue to be updated (see Author's Note.)

Comments are encouraged.

Conserve Liberty!

→ The Section above was last updated 12 Jul 2017 21:45 PDT ←

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