Ah, yes -- that was a bit of what I was trying to explain in the very long ramble above: lilairen definitely has multiple distinct rest points for her personality-state, in a way that's much less situation-linked than mine are (and that goes off to a separate thought, which I'll put in a footnote so's to avoid digressing too far [1]). And, in some cases -- say, where she's been heavily weighted towards one but is being pulled in some sense towards a different one, there's a point where her personality-state suddenly changes to something near the different state.
I somewhat conceptualize it as being like the surface of a logosplat (the sorts of logos that look like a bit of jelly went splat so there are multiple round lobes sticking out of a center but still connected to it) -- her personality-state is somewhere on that surface, and various things tend to pull it around. So, particularly in things where the pull is quite off-center, she's likely to end up in one of the lobes, and also to tend to jump from one to the other rather than moving gradually. And, extending the metaphor from a single state to a sort of cloud of many of them, it explains why some parts of the cloud are in one and some in another with few in the middle.
[1] Which raises an interesting point (and, at this point, it actually flows back into to the discussion again -- imagine that!): I've got several distinct rest-states for my personality as well, but I don't see them as multiple personalities, and I think that's because they're all driven by external things. There's a state that I'm in when talking about engineering stuff that I'm interested in, and a state where I'm snuggling with lilairen, and those are rather different -- but they're different as a direct function of what I'm doing, and there aren't bits of my "engineering" state (although there are engineering thoughts, but that's a different matter) when I'm mainly in the "snuggling" state, or vice-versa. I suspect this is explainable by postulating that my state-surface is rather more like a potato than a splat, and doesn't have notable lobes. And, so, my cloud doesn't tend to jump nearly so suddenly except when there's a sudden change in external pulls, and it doesn't tend to get separated into bits in different places.
(My guess is that this separability of personality-cloud probably has something to do with the fact that she multitasks all the time, and I am virtually always singletasking. But that doesn't really show up in the splat/potato model.)
Here, how about you go on and ramble some, so's I won't be the only one here doing it?
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I somewhat conceptualize it as being like the surface of a logosplat (the sorts of logos that look like a bit of jelly went splat so there are multiple round lobes sticking out of a center but still connected to it) -- her personality-state is somewhere on that surface, and various things tend to pull it around. So, particularly in things where the pull is quite off-center, she's likely to end up in one of the lobes, and also to tend to jump from one to the other rather than moving gradually. And, extending the metaphor from a single state to a sort of cloud of many of them, it explains why some parts of the cloud are in one and some in another with few in the middle.
[1] Which raises an interesting point (and, at this point, it actually flows back into to the discussion again -- imagine that!): I've got several distinct rest-states for my personality as well, but I don't see them as multiple personalities, and I think that's because they're all driven by external things. There's a state that I'm in when talking about engineering stuff that I'm interested in, and a state where I'm snuggling with
(My guess is that this separability of personality-cloud probably has something to do with the fact that she multitasks all the time, and I am virtually always singletasking. But that doesn't really show up in the splat/potato model.)
Here, how about you go on and ramble some, so's I won't be the only one here doing it?