tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post4977199482310745547..comments2024-03-29T15:13:42.610+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The Inner Man - The Endogenous Personality Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-83895516958808326152015-07-08T23:26:59.508+01:002015-07-08T23:26:59.508+01:00One other point, an unengaged Endogenous Personali...One other point, an unengaged Endogenous Personality will cogitate on many things, and may also create innovation as a result of these mental gymnastics, but perhaps not in a way that has immediate apparent value. I suspect it is usually best to offer an EP appropriate challenges with periods of unengaged to time to just play and reflect upon what he or she finds interesting. And I do think that having a focus in more than one area or discipline can yield surprising results which are missed if the discipline is narrow.Nicholas Fulfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15779171820370486921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-41278937804291687542015-07-08T23:21:49.083+01:002015-07-08T23:21:49.083+01:00The endogenous personality (EP) brings about innov...The endogenous personality (EP) brings about innovation.<br /><br />Innovation where it is applied to a problem that endangers the community, or relieves the community of a constraint that allows for greater surpluses confers an obvious advantage. Hence, having a proportion of the community that have an EP is beneficial. Assuming that the occurrence of EP is more or less randomly distributed between communities, it is likely that the competitive advantage will be most realised when a community that has sufficient surpluses to afford the investment in an otherwise less productive person. On the other hand, the community which is most in need of the innovative potential of an EP is one that is least likely to be able to afford him or her - at least until some innovation occurs which relieves the community of a significant risk or constraint. Of course this also assumes that the other aspect of the EP's intelligence and aptitude allow for an innovation that is of this type rather than say a religious, shamanic or cultural innovation. We should also not discount the effect of environment in the process of fostering a budding EP to become a successful innovator. (For example, the Soviet school system was very good at producing engineers, but not new engineering innovations which required new ways of thinking as oppose to using the existing methods well. The American culture and education system, on the other hand, fostered a more competitive environment that rewarded new ways of thinking, which led to more patents and higher productivity. Hence an EP in the Soviet system was less likely to realise full potential, and may actually get into significant trouble for diverging from the established methods.)<br /><br />In a knowledge based economy - such as what we have today - an EP has a significant ability to affect overall productivity through the efficiencies resulting from their innovations, and via the patents which protect the intellectual knowledge to afford investors the opportunity to realise a good return on their investment. I suspect this is why the United States makes intellectual property rights such an intense focus in trade agreements.<br /><br />One thing that is important for an EP to reach fruition is a suitably vexing and engaging set of problems - well suited to an EP's other intellectual potentials and abilities. This provides the sand in the oyster, from which pearls of valuable innovation are spun.Nicholas Fulfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15779171820370486921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-29979357597622223732015-07-08T12:10:36.571+01:002015-07-08T12:10:36.571+01:00I also prefer the land and climate in the Northeas...I also prefer the land and climate in the Northeastern quarter of the U.S. – E.g. New England, Pennsylvania, Michigan, etc. I find the Western half of the U.S., the prairies, deserts, mountains, to be alien. The Southeast also seems alien although less so.<br />I believe the South had the right to secede and to be left alone. And I find it easier to identify with the Confederate flag now since it’s a symbol of old America, a normal, Christian civilization where sodomy wouldn’t have been tolerated let alone sacralized.<br />BruceBnoreply@blogger.com