The Platonic-Freudian Model of Mind: Defining “Self” and “Other” as Psychoinformatic Primitives

Abstract

As "nurtural" (rather than merely natural) kinds of human beings, people are complex and multifaceted. Any complete human science would require a complete theory of persons. Accomplishing the latter is the core objective of the present article. First, a feature list first laid out in [1] is summarized. This list is briefly critiqued. Next, the concept of person engaged with is expanded with the addition of nine novel features. These features follow from "holarchic psychoinformatics" [2], which was first propounded as a step forward from Sood's analytic treatment of third-force, existential-humanistic psychology. Person is formalized as a function of self and other; they are also granted to be romantic, existential, humanistic, chemical, environmental, hedonic and eudaimonic (happiness-seeking), conservative, and liberal. These are in addition to persons being physical, biological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual. Sood's holarchic view of persons is enlarged. Psychologically, augmented cognition as an established field of research and practice begets the formal studies of augmented affect, augmented behavior, and augmented motivation. All such interdisciplinary fields are required for the human-computer interactionist's study of augmented mind, more broadly. Additionally, this article builds on the person-situation interaction framework formalized in [1]. It does so by adding a formalization following from the discussion of psychological situations put forward by Rauthmann, Sherman, and Funder in [3]. The formalization of psychological situations sets them as a function of cues, characteristics, and classes. Further psychological equations that follow from this article's formalisms of person and situation, when considered along with Sood's formulae for mind and behavior, are then presented.

Holarchic HCI and Augmented Psychology (“AugPsy”)

“…Person was formalized as a function of self and other; they were further granted to be romantic, existential, humanistic, chemical, environmental, hedonic and eudaimonic (happiness-seeking), conservative, and liberal [11]. These are in addition to persons being physical, chemical, biological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual (as explicated in Sood's [5] theory of reality).…”

“…Informally, (3) reads: personsituation interaction is a function of mental and behavioral structures and processes. Such mental and behavioral structures may be either traits, states, or hybrid trates [11]. The use of trate over both state and trait would eliminate the need to use latter in formalisms such as (3).…”

“…Knowledge is understood here as a form of cognition represented in one's mind or being enacted procedurally via the skilled use of one's body. 11 In either case, knowledge is encoded in an embodied, neurocognitive substrate. Representing knowledge via formal syntax and operations is the domain of mathematical logic, which also extends into computation primarily in the form of discrete logical operations determined by the programmer.…”

“…via description of an activity's meaning to the human actor, or perhaps quantified. Perhaps the optimal flow experience is only quantifiable as being infinitely enjoyable, enriching, engaging, and/or meaningful, among other possible measures.1 Augmented psychology was argued for in [11] with the proposal of augmented mind, including augmented cognition, affect, and conation. AugPsy may also include augmented body [66], consisting of the deviceattaching human and their technologically extended self [67].…”

“…1 Augmented psychology was argued for in [11] with the proposal of augmented mind, including augmented cognition, affect, and conation. AugPsy may also include augmented body [66], consisting of the deviceattaching human and their technologically extended self [67].…”