FIELD NOTES / 001
Reading the Bestiary.
A compact guide to the language behind the creatures. Think of each entry as a map of information elements, not a verdict on who someone is.
Many ways
to take in the world.
Socionics describes personality through patterns of information processing. The Academy presents its own sixteen-function lattice: each animal is a variation arranged across four floors of logic, intuition, ethics, and sensing.
The four-letter labels in this collection identify arrangements within the supplied bestiary. They may resemble labels used in other personality systems, but should not be treated as interchangeable definitions.
Eight symbols.
Four domains.
Read each floor
right to left.
The rightmost position is 1 · Conscious, followed by 2 · Active, 3 · Reserve, and 4 · Background at the far left. Each symbol's shape represents a domain: square for logic, triangle for intuition, circle for sensing, and an L-mark for ethics.
A filled symbol means extraverted (Ч); an outline means introverted (Б). The plus or minus sign is the shade of content within that direction. White-led, black-led, and mixed filters describe the orientation of conscious elements across the four floors.
A shared form,
a different pattern.
Some animals appear more than once. Raven, for example, appears as both INTJ (“The Analyst”) and INFJ (“The Agent”). The shared creature represents a related within-floor template; the type code changes with the arrangement.
This collection is a visual interpretation of the supplied framework. Use it for exploration and comparison, not as a clinical or scientific assessment.
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