Personality Abilities

Personality Abilities (or Personality Intelligence Dimensions (or abilities)) are personal capabilities that an individual can do in particular intelligence. These abilities lead to competencies, which the said individual is empowered to attain. We have four personal intelligences: spiritual (Si), emotional (Ei), cognitive (Ci), and moral (Mi). The following abilities (dimensions) and their competences are discussed below.

Figure-1: Personality Abilities (Personality Intelligence Dimensions)

KCUE (Kuhn-Circle Ultimate Enterprise) has powerful circles that arise from Kuhn-Circle, namely virtuous and vicious circles. As shown in Figure 1, the virtuous and vicious circles create the dimensions based on their areas of competency, as shown in the above KCUE figure (Si, Ei, Ci, and Mi dimensions). The lower figure IS and PS Spectrums is used to locate the stage on the above figure. The IS and PS diagrams are integrated into a single picture for clarity, while vicious and virtuous circles are assembled in a well-known Kuhn circle.

Spiritual, Emotional, Cognition, and Moral Intelligences Abilities

Spiritual Intelligence (Si): is the power to explore and steer virtuous life by searching for knowledge and truth through divine revelation, experience, logic & reason, and intuition.

Emotional Intelligence (Ei): is the power to steer and use our emotions to decode and benefit from the physical universe and the nature of ultimate reality.

Cognitive Intelligence (Ci): is the ability to organize reasoning using deductive, inductive, and abductive thinking.

Moral Intelligence (Mi): is the principles and values controlling reasoning, divided into ethics and aesthetics.

Brief description: Si, Ei, Ci, and Mi

 They suit perfectly the invention of IS (Individual Spectrum) and PS (Public Spectrum), as shown in Figure-1. This justifies that mental constructs are made from the Spiritual and Emotional Intelligences only. Because cognitive and Moral Intelligences (Mi) are enablers of the former two. The Moral intelligence controls Cognitive Intelligence (Ci) when implementing Spiritual Intelligence (Si) and Emotional Intelligence (Ei). Remember, IS and PS are connoted as IS (Si, Ci_Mi) and PS (Ei, Ci_Li), meaning IS and PS are simulated in vector quantities. Therefore, Si and Ei are directional components, while Ci_Mi&Li is a dimensional component, meaning it follows the direction of Si and Ei, while its magnitude gives the impetus towards achieving the oriented themes.

Si, Ei, Ci, and Mi Intelligence Abilities

Table 1: Intelligences Dimensions

Brief elaboration of the above abilities (dimensions) in a table above, defining competencies.

A: Spiritual Intelligence.

Consciousness

• Consciousness: is the state of personal awareness about thoughts, senses, feelings, actions, stimuli, and intuition. Thoughts call for long- and short-term memories to start actions like speaking, moving, promising, etc. responding to a certain stimulus. Senses monitor the surrounding environment to trigger intuition and feeling. It is an individual internal thinking activity as seen in Figure 1: Si, Ei, Ci, and Mi (Li) Dimensions. Consciousness monitors the orientation of an individual from the Truth to Fallacies. In more detailed consciousness competences, we extrapolate from “awareness and wakefulness, thus taken together, form the clinical markers (abilities or dimensions) of consciousness.”¹ Short description of conscienceless:
  • Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, feel, or be conscious of events, objects, or sensory patterns (from a Google search).
  • Wakefulness: “is a state of arousal in which there is a conscious monitoring of the environment and there is potential for efficient responsiveness to external stimuli or threats. It is in contrast to the state of sleep in which there is reduced responsiveness to environmental stimuli.”² 

Existential

• Existential refers to the way you describe fear, anxiety, and other emotions brought on by contemplating life after death.³
• The existential dimension of spiritual intelligence (Si) encompasses human decisions resulting from the meaning of life.
• They are mental images created while reasoning to make a particular choice. From the Central University of South Bihar (CUSB)⁴, amplified the dimensions of human conditions according to existential approach as competencies:
  1. “The capacity for self-awareness.”.
  2. “Freedom and responsibility.”. As human beings, we are free to define our destiny from choices we make, though we had no choice but to exist in this world and in a particular area or race.

• “Creating one’s identity and establishing meaningful relationships with others.”

1. “The search for meaning, purpose, values, and goals.”
2. “Anxiety as a condition of living.” -ibid, and
3. “Awareness of death and nonbeing” Death is inevitable. Nonbeing is an emptiness; it is meaninglessness—it holds meaning when addressed to the being. – ibid.

Transcendence

• Transcendence: it is a performance beyond human experience but below divine power. Itis achieved from divine revelation and usually happens during paradigm shift, as seen in a Kuhn-Cycle. From the second illustration of Figure 1, we have a curve PAT&U (Philosophy Asymptotic to Truth & Untruth). During decision-thinking, one traverses from pro-PTR towards contra-PTR or vice versa, looking for a particular orientation. At a certain time, there is a particular operating lifestyle. Through transcendence, elites keep pushing, approaching the two asymptotic lines, improving or impairing the lifestyle.
• Take an example of Elon Musk with the electric car paradigm shift. Soon it is going to be a standard in most automobiles. This example is the power of transcendence, aiming at pushing limits. “Another form of psychological transcendence, or loosening of informational boundaries, is transliminality, which Michael A. Thalbourne defined as a ‘hypothesized tendency for psychological material to cross thresholds in and out of consciousness.’”⁵ Transliminality (or transcendence) was detailed well with Allen Tiller⁶, having eleven competences of which I like to share with you below:

Transcendence (Transliminality) Competencies

1. Magical Ideation (magical thinking): “refers to the idea that you can influence the outcome of specific events by doing something that has no bearing on the circumstances.”⁷ For example, wearing a lucky item like a ring.
2. Mystical Experience: “belief that is not based on evidence or subjected to criticism”–courtesy of https://www.thefreedictionary.com/
3. Ineffability: “mystical states that are usually so immense to the person experiencing them, they are incapable of expressing the feelings or images in words.”–ibid (Allen Tiller)
4. Noetic quality: “mystical experiences that bring knowledge or experiences to a personal experience that are usually beyond that person’s intellectual grasp. Experiences can bring knowledge, insight, awareness and revelation that the person would not, in their daily understanding, achieve.”–ibid (Allen Tiller)
5. Transiency: “mystical experiences such as the feeling of Nirvana (felt by some mystics and saints) that are fleeting in linear time, though to the person experiencing them, seem to be eternal.” – ibid (Allen Tiller)
6. Passivity: “mystical experiences in which a person feels engulfed and held by a superior power. This is sometimes experienced as OBE (out-of-body experience). Some mystics claim to leave their bodies to gain healing powers or talk to spirits.”–ibid (Allen Tiller)

Further about Transcendence (Transliminality) Competencies

1. Absorption: “is a disposition or personality trait in which a person becomes absorbed in their mental imagery, particularly fantasy.” – ibid (Allen Tiller)
2. Hyperaesthesia: “abnormal increase of sensitivity to touch, pain, or other sensory stimuli.”–ibid (Allen Tiller)
3. Manic Experience: “can include elevated mood, inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, racing thoughts, difficulty maintaining attention, increase in goal-directed activity, and excessive involvement in pleasurable activities.”-ibid. (Allen Tiller)
4. Dream Interpretation: The Transliminality Test identified the following seven types of dreaming experiences to transliminal personalities—ibid (Allen Tiller):
   1. lucid dreams—a dream where the dreamer is aware they are dreaming
   2. archetypal dreams—dreams ‘carrying a sense of awe and fascination and/or encounters with strange and unusual beings,’
   3. fantastic nightmare—upsetting and very vivid memorable dreams, involving a range of negative emotions
   4. pre-lucid dreams, where one questions whether one is dreaming but cannot decide
   5. control dreams—control not possible in waking life is exercised in the dream
   6. posttraumatic nightmares—a traumatic real event is relived
   7. night terrors—awakening in terror with no recall of dream content.
5. Fantasy-prone personality (FPP): “is a disposition or personality trait in which a person experiences a lifelong extensive and deep involvement in fantasy. This disposition is an attempt to better describe ‘overactive imagination’ or ‘living in a dream world.” – Wikipedia.org

Sanctity

Sanctity: is the state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly. Or an ability to be holy, sacred, or saintly. Holiness, sacredness, or sainthood traverses the curve PAT&U (Philosophy Asymptotic to Truth & Untruth) as seen in Figure 1. It does not touch the asymptotic lines. This dimension controls the other three dimensions—consciousness, existential, and transcendence—such that they are executed sacredly. In a broad view, sanctity is morality but not moral intelligence (Mi) competence (MFT), discussed later. With this in mind, I have come across the positing of Moral Foundation Theory (MFT),⁸ which fits clusters to consider during decision-making as discussed below.

Sanctity Competence

1. Care/harm: “an ability to feel (and dislike) the pain of others. It underlies virtues of kindness, gentleness, and nurture.” –MFT.
2. Fairness/cheating: “is related to the evolutionary process of reciprocal altruism. It generates ideas of justice, rights, and autonomy.” –MFT. Being reciprocal of altruism implies a PUER (Pro Ultimate Enterprise Region)—detailed in PUER.

• Loyalty/betrayal: “it underlies virtues of patriotism and self-sacrifice for the group. It is active anytime people feel it’s ‘one for all and all for one.’–MFT.

1. Authority/subversion: “it underlies virtues of leadership and followership, including deference to legitimate authority and respect for traditions.”–MFT.
2. Sanctity/degradation: “shaped by the psychology of disgust and contamination. It underlies religious notions of striving to live in an elevated, less carnal, more noble way.” -MFT.
3. Liberty/oppression: “the feelings of reactance and resentment people feel toward those who dominate them and restrict their liberty. The hatred of bullies and dominators motivates people to come together, in solidarity, to oppose or take down the oppressor.” -MFT.

Emotional Intelligence

B: Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman defined emotional competence “a learned capability based on emotional intelligence that results in outstanding performance at work.” ⁹ He went further to distinguish competencies from abilities (which are dimensions) as fundamental abilities from particular intelligence. Clarifying these abilities to their competencies, he developed a Framework of Emotional Competencies reproduced in Table 2: Framework of Emotional Competencies (courtesy of Daniel Goleman) below. This definition aligns well with my Ei (Emotional Intelligence) as per the Ultimate Enterprise definition above.

Framework of Emotional Competencies

Table 2: Framework of Emotional Competencies (courtesy of Daniel Goleman)

Brief definitions of Table 2 competencies:

Self-awareness:

• Self-awareness:
  • Emotional self-awareness: “the ability to understand your own emotions and their effects on your performance.” ¹⁰
  • Accurate self-assessment: “an inner awareness of your strengths and limitations, without ill-placed pride, and without shame. It’s also knowing how to use your strengths and improve in your areas of growth.” ¹¹
  • Self-confidence: is the ability to know yourself, believe in yourself, and act on your beliefs in such a way that it develops value and trust.

Self-Management:

• Self-Management:
  • Self-control: “the ability to manage one’s impulses, emotions, and behaviors to achieve long-term goals.” ¹²
  • Trustworthiness: the trait of deserving trust and confidence. -from WordWeb
  • Conscientiousness: the trait of being painstaking and careful. -from WordWeb
  • Adaptability: the quality of being able to adjust to new conditions—from google-search.
  • Achievement drive: “a powerful drive to complete a task to the best of one’s abilities and, frequently, to become acknowledged as well as approved regarding reaching one’s goals.” ¹³
  • Initiative: the ability to assess and start things independently—from google search

Social Awareness:

• Social Awareness:
  • Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another—from google search.
  • Service orientation: “the ability and desire to expect, recognize, and meet others’ needs, sometimes even before those needs are articulated.” ¹⁴
  • Organizational awareness: “the acumen to appreciate and the ability to use the formal and informal roles, relationships, and structures in either’s own, or other, organization(s).” ¹⁵

Relationship Management:

• Relationship Management:
  • Developing others: “the process of training and developing your employees or team members to enable them to become more effective and take on bigger/more significant challenges.” ¹⁶
  • Influence: the capacity to affect the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself—from google search
  • Communication: the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium—from google search
  • Conflict management: “the practice of being able to identify and handle conflicts sensibly, fairly, and efficiently.” ¹⁷
  • Leadership: the action of leading a group of people or an organization—from google search
  • Change catalyst: “someone who helps to guide, navigate, and accelerate the people side of change with key stakeholders.” ¹⁸
  • Building Bonds: “a bond between people is a strong feeling of friendship, love, or shared beliefs and experiences that unites them.” ¹⁹
  • Teamwork & collaboration: “working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goal” ²⁰

Cognitive Intelligence

C: Cognitive Intelligence.

Cognitive Intelligence is “one’s ability to learn, remember, reason, solve problems, and make sound judgments, particularly as contrasted with emotional intelligence.” This definition aligns well with my Ci (Cognitive Intelligence) as per the Ultimate Enterprise above. As seen from Table 1: Intelligences Dimensions, consciousness is a common factor for all four intelligences. As the definition of Ci above, including reasoning, solving problems, and make sound judgements, they apply meant for Si (Spiritual Intelligence) and Ei (Emotional Intelligence) orientation. Table 3 summarizes the applicable competencies.

Cognitive Intelligence Dimensions

Table 3: Framework of Cognitive Competencies (courtesy of Arsiwalla et al. ²¹)

Brief definitions of Table 3 competencies:

Autonomous

• Autonomous
  • Adaptive intelligence: “the ability of the mind to change in response to the current demand in the environment.”²².

Computation

• Computation
  • Recognition: identification of someone or something or person from previous encounters or knowledge–from google search
  • Planning: is laying-out the cause of action.
  • Decision-making: “making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information, and assessing alternative resolutions.” ²³

Social

• Social: Tools for interacting with other agents
  • Language: “a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves. The functions of language include communication, the expression of identity, play, imaginative expression, and emotional release.” ²⁴
  • Conventions: “is a set of agreed, stipulated, or accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom. In a social context, a convention may keep the character of an ‘unwritten law’ of custom (for example, the manner in which people greet each other, such as by shaking each other’s hands). Certain types of rules or customs may become law and sometimes they may be further codified to formalize or enforce the convention (for example, laws that define on which side of the road vehicles must be driven).”courtesy of Wikipedia.
  • Culture is a group of people’s way of life—the actions, attitudes, values, and symbols that they adopt without question and pass down through conversation and imitation from one generation to the next. ²⁵

Moral Intelligence

D: Moral Intelligence.

As defined before, Moral Intelligence (Mi) is the principles and values controlling reasoning, divided into ethics and aesthetics. We identify Moral Intelligence (Mi) by three dimensions: decision-Making, judgment, and Inference. These dimensions, when scribed in a Venn diagram and rename the disconnect between the adjacent, we get further competencies as summarized in a Moral raw as Three Dimensions of Moral Cognition (courtesy of Hongbo Yu et al ²⁶

Disconnecting between moral judgement and moral decision-making is Moral Hypocrisy. Disconnect between moral judgement and moral Inference is personal-centered Centered Morality. And the disconnect between moral inference and moral decision-making is Moral Hypocrisy.

brief definition of terms for the courtesy of Hongbo Yu et al.

Moral Decision-making

Moral decision-making: “how people make decisions that affect the welfare of others.” by Hongbo Yu et al. The following competencies are necessary to achieve the moral decision-making dimension:

• Problem rationalization

Problem rationalization “Know the problem you are solving.” Peter Drucker

• Boundary conditions

The definition of the specifications that the answer to the problem has to satisfy, of the “boundary conditions.” Know your range of options that will still count as success. Peter Drucker

• Right thing to do

Before you decide what’s workable, first figure out what the right thing to do is.–Peter Drucker

• Action

Turn decisions into action.  – Peter Drucker

• Feedback

Get feedback on what’s working and what’s not. –Peter Drucker

Moral judgment

Moral judgment: “how people make judgments about the moral appropriateness of actions and assign blame and punishment, or praise and reward.” by Hongbo Yu et al. The following competencies help to achieve the judgment dimension:

Moral inference

Moral inference: how people form beliefs about the moral character of agents based on observations of morally relevant behaviors. – by Hongbo Yu et al. The following competencies are necessary to achieve the moral inference dimension:

Moral Inference Competencies.

• Information: it is background knowledge about what we have to infer. “Background knowledge by reading, talking to people, traveling, watching the news, learning job skills—in fact, everything we have seen and done contributes to our background knowledge.” ²⁷
• Assumptions: they are guiding attitudes on the cause of inference, mainly arising from standing beliefs. For example, consider solutions to poverty in a third-world country. Two or more consultants may differ on inferences based on their attitudes, like lack of leadership or lack of management. Such an assumption offers different inferences.
• Implications: “Not all inferences are based on facts. We often make inferences based on a best guess or on implications. When a statement is only suggested or hinted at, it is an implication. We draw inferences and reach conclusions from implications just as we do from direct statements. The problem with drawing conclusions from implications is that the language of implications is slippery, sometimes intentionally so.” courtesy of butte.edu.
• Connotation: “one reason we can make implications is that words have connotation. Denotation is the dictionary meaning of a word. Connotation is its ‘color’ or emotional feel. Some words have negative connotations, some positive. Would you rather be called sensitive or touchy? Liberal or progressive? Religious or spiritual? We interpret connotation unconsciously, making inferences about both the author and material based partly on the ‘color’ of the words. Connotation is cultural.” courtesy of butte.edu.

Moral Common Fallacies

As we can see in Table 4, the intersections of the Venn diagram in Three Dimensions of Moral Cognition (thanks to Hongbo Yu et al.) show three common errors or lies in inference. These are moral hypocrisy, moral influence, and personal-centered morality, which we will talk about below.

Moral hypocrisy is the “motivation to appear moral while, if possible, avoiding the cost of being moral. This opposes moral integrity, which is the motivation to act in accord with moral principles—to be moral.” ²⁸

Moral influence can be understood as an interaction between moral inference and moral decision-making, and

Personal-centered Morality: focusing on individuals as the unit of analysis for moral evaluations rather than on acts.

We can put together all the intelligence dimensions and competencies in a table below.

Summary of Intelligences Dimensions

Table 4: Summary of Intelligence Dimensions

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