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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.

The Curiosity Personality Spectrum Tapestry is an essential Cognitive Function enabling instincts, perceptions, responses, and urges driving a spectrum of behaviors manifesting themselves as interest, identification, and characterization. Supporting those behaviors, the curious also experience desire, attraction, arousal and acquisition (e.g. pursuit, conquest). Very similar to Libido (general).

This is interesting, since Libido is governed primarily by activity in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway (ventral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens). Consequently, dopamine and related trace amines (primarily phenethylamine) that modulate dopamine neurotransmission also play a critical role in regulating libido.

Recall that the mesolimbic dopamine pathway is part of the Reward System.

We have also seen that neurological pathways impacted by dopamine and certain dopamine receptors also influence certain behaviors associated with Curiosity, such as novelty seeking.

In addition, it is commonly observed that Curiosity is highest at very young ages and tends (on average) to decline with age. Similarly, various of the libidos, sexual libido as an example, are known to be highest near the ages when sexual maturity is reached and also seem to decline with age.

It is credible, at this point, to imagining that perhaps the Curiosity Tapestry and the Libido Tapestry share common components (some of which may decline with age). Or, perhaps one or the other is an actual ensemble component of the other, and thus when the component ensemble declines with age, so does the overall behavior manifested by the Tapestry.

Considering The Curiosity Tapestry, ConserveLiberty hypothesizes that it may be made up of several Ensembles of functions. For example:

• The Libido Personality Spectrum Tapestry
  
  
• The Critical Thinking Personality Spectrum Ensemble - enables additional positive adaptation to the current environment. In other words - improvement.
  
  
• The Reality Perception Ensemble
  
  
• The Bullshit Detection Filter
  
  
• The Pattern Recognition Personality Filter
  
  
• The Analytical Personality Filter (includes the requirement for verification)
  
  
• The Ability to Form New Memories Functions (the MOA that gets memory_a into a form that can be stored in Short Term Memory (STM,) and then transferred to "Long Term Memory (LTM) Holding" (LTM holding,) which the Memory Function then takes to store into the memory_b infrastructure for LTM.)
  
  
• The Memory Function (both the memory_b infrastructure and the MOA that enables the storing of memory_a (in "LTM holding") into memory_b.) Once memory_a is stored into memory_b, LTM formation has completed.
  
  
• The Recall Function (recovers memory_a from memory_b for cognition usage.)
  
  
• The Memory Delete Function (when needed, this function will "erase" memory_a from memory_b, thereby freeing up infrastructure for the storing of a new memory_a.) The Memory Delete Function is The Forgetting Function. The Memory Delete Function does not have an "Undo" routine. Once forgotten, memories are gone.
  
  
• The Environment. If nothing "not remembered" is experienced, Curiosity is not invoked. All organisms are "learning organisms". (They all DO adapt or their lineages perish.) Thus, all of "What We Are" is influenced to some degree by the environments we find ourselves needing to survive within.

Each of these "Curiosity Ensembles", which altogether make up the Curiosity Tapestry, are themselves ensembles of Filters or other Ensembles.

Multiple things fall out of the fact that Environment plays a significant roll with the Curiosity Tapestry:

• It will be more difficult to uncover many of the biological components that create the Curiosity Tapestry. There are hundreds, at least.
  
  
• Some clinically significant manifestations of the Curiosity Tapestry may often be due to environmental factors alone. Skepticism is important in order to accurately understand the "Curiosity Tapestry" 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 impact one's Curiosity Tapestry status in ways that are both productive and comfortable to live and engage with.
  
  
• In other individual cases where environment plays an insignificant role in determining how one experiences and expresses Curiosity, attempts to alter (or, rehabilitate) one's Curiosity Tapestry status may be unproductive, moot.

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

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This section will have content posted to it in subsequent revisions of this chapter (Curiosity Personality Spectrum Tapestry). The current version as of this writing is v #1.0.

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The development of the Curiosity Personality Spectrum Tapestry chapter is ongoing. There is so much more to elaborate on that would be helpful for understanding how we are built to appropriately and productively manifest Curiosity in and within our environment. And how ambitious we can be in pursuing the same ... if we can. If we even want to.

There are several areas that haven't been more thouroughly explored in this version. Among them:

• The manifestations of Curiosity and Senility may be potential extremes of the same Tapestry, manifested under either healthy or degraded circumstances.
  
  Or that one is simply diminishing as the tapestry's foundation is diminishing.
  
  
• The idea that perhaps observed Lack of Recall may prevent the induction of curiosity under circumstances where memory_a is stored in memory_b (is not forgotten) but not memorable should be explored further, if possible.
  
  
• ConserveLiberty's restricted definitions of Curiosity and Memory related terminology may be difficult to embrace and appreciate. Especially so since many wanting to take an opposing view on this sort of topic will often not be specific or careful with their language. And, we all have experienced folks redefining terms while trying to influence an argument from a particular view. So too it can be with the term "Curiosity."
  
  
• Discuss the asymmetry of the perception of curiosity among those having different Curiosity dial settings.
  
  

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.

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