II.   Mind (PSY)

Personality, is a fictional identification system defining the set of attributes assigned to the fictional Person attributed to a member of the Homo Sapien species that distinguishes them from another.

The word Personality originates from the 16th Century Latin personalitus itself derived from two (2) Latin words persona meaning “mask, character, part of a play” and alitus meaning “to nourish, increase, promote”.

As Identification Systems, Personality Systems have a profound “self-fulfilling” impact on people who come into contact to a larger or lesser degree, depending upon the perceived accuracy, suggestibility and its usefulness.

The fictional attributes used to classify Personality “types” are also known as traits, factors or dispositions which are then said to define assumed habitual patterns of behavior, thought and emotion.

Two (2) common methods of creating personality identification systems exist:

(i) the first using statistical analysis to aggregate answers to questionnaires towards a desired outcome; and

(ii) secondly in the use of demographic and economic statistical information to derive a suitable number of socio-economic categories.

While Personality may define observed phenomena and characteristics, it remains a fictional label. Therefore Personality is a fictional group of fictional labels, not the actual phenomena or characteristics themselves.

Personality is not the mind or living being it describes. Any law, interpretation of law or enforcement of law that ignores this fact represents an absurdity of logic and is automatically null and void from the beginning.