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Volitional Selection


Much of the associational processes are automatic and is necessary as such. Volitional selection is the purposeful selection of Association, other than automatic. Thinking about driving to work, one may associate automatically the usual way one always goes. Or one could volitionally select new ways. Creative thinking such as song or fiction writing, utilizes Volitional Selection.

Interpretive Context


Context is the organization of the memory, into categories of conceptual information. Salad is categorized as food and not clothes. When seeing or thinking about salad, one may automatically and volitionally, associate related mental information such as lettuce, vegetables or fruit, dressing or croutons. If one sees or thinks of a particular salad such as Caesar Salad, a more limited and precise category is associated, such as Romaine lettuce, Worcestershire Sauce, raw or coddled egg-yolks etc. The Interpretive Context is all associative information, pertaining and related to salads, or a particular salad. Volitional selection would be to create a new salad recipe or to fantasize settings in the salad might be served.

Identities


If there is but one body and one Ego, any number of Identities can be adopted by the individual. By adopting various objectives and corresponding values, that characterize various Interpretive Personifications, the individual can adopt or create various personifications distinct from the singular body.

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