Cognitive Elements #5 - Extroversion & Introversion

 Extroversion & Introversion


Essence
  • Extroversion in its essence is to take information more or less as it appears, trying to apprehend its inherent properties.
  • Introversion in its essence is to take information and compare it to other information of its sort, to create a synthesis between it and other available information.

Virtues & Vices
  • Extroversion
    • The Vice of Extroversion is that it can take a rather naive attitude toward appearances; it tends to presume that what is obvious is all that one needs to know, or simply fails to consider that there is more beyond the obvious.
    • The Virtue of Extroversion is that it receives information more freshly and accurately. It is therefore able to avoid bias (though no one is ever free of it), and change its mind based on new information more quickly.
  • Introversion
    • The Vice of Introversion is that, in its attempt to synthesise all incoming information with other information, can fail to appreciate the information as it actually arrives; it comes to conflate one thing for another, or even all other things that the introvert has associated with it. In addition, this results in a slowness to change one's mind, especially on matters highly invested with association and generality.
    • The Virtue of Introversion is that it tends to lead to greater insight into matters, not being constrained so much by the specifics of what it is experiencing or has experienced.

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