Information aspects

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The eight information aspects form a category that is unique to socionics. Augusta, influenced by Antoni Kempinski's theory of information metabolism, concluded that the information that enters the psyche can be divided into different kinds, just as Jung divided psychic functions into different kinds.

Information aspects divide all information into 8 different kinds. While the "informational" implications of this concept have not been thoroughly developed in socionics, this kind of division may provide a way to link socionics to information theory and other theoretical fields such as memetics.

The eight information aspects are denoted by the following symbols:

1 Semantics
2 Attempts to unify the information aspects
3 Differences from information elements
4 Bodies and fields
5 Links

[edit] Semantics

: Information about the innate, internal, constant properties of objects, the sources of these properties, and the potential that they contain.
: Information about how something dynamically changes over time
: Information about spatial territory, ownership, and influence
: Information about how something dynamically relates and adjusts to its spatial environment
: Information about technical processes, efficient activity, and the use of resources
: Information about structural relationships between components and logical dependencies between states of affairs
: Information about states of excitation and how they are communicated
: Information about attraction and repulsion between objects as well as personal dependencies

[edit] Attempts to unify the information aspects

See Semantic Content of Symbols Used in Socionics by Aushra Augusta

Various socionists starting with Augusta have tried to show the unity and completeness of the information aspects — in other words, that they truly encompass all aspects of reality. Augusta related the aspects to such categories as "time," "space," "attraction/repulsion," etc. These definitions have gradually fallen out of favor due to their speculative nature.

In 1990 Roman Sedykh's well-known article "Aspectonics" introduced the following structurization of the information aspects built upon Augusta's own writings:

— internal statics of bodies

— external statics of bodies

— external dynamics of bodies

— internal dynamics of bodies

— internal dynamics of fields

— external dynamics of fields

— external statics of fields

— internal statics of fields [1]

This approach has also been criticized by such socionists as Dmitriy Lytov. However, others claim to find it useful.

[edit] Differences from information elements

Though they are denoted by the same symbols, information elements are the psychic modules that perceive, process, and produce corresponding information aspects. Whether the information aspects can be referred to using the same names as the IM elements is debatable.

This distinction is irrelevant in most, if not all, cases. For example, there is no difference between saying that aspects occupy functions, or that elements occupy functions. Also, if the patterns represented by elements are rather specific to the human psyche (unlike, say, vision), then the distinction becomes even more contrived.

[edit] Bodies and fields

Bodies and fields are concepts from physics which Aushra Augusta used as an analogy for the difference between extroverted and introverted information aspects. These days it is more common to see the analogy of "objects" and "relationships" instead of bodies and fields. See article on Bodies and Fields from The Socionist blog.