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Personality formation is a dynamic information architecture where embodied stimulus experiences play a structurally dominant role over knowledge-based experiences by generating value gradients that are subsequently organized into meaning and stabilized into a self-model. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To introduce a conceptual model of personality formation where embodied sensory experiences take structural precedence over knowledge-based experiences in generating a self-model.

September 14, 2026Open Access

What Is Personality? 2.0 / 人格とは何か 2.0

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Theoretical analysis reveals the structural dominance of embodied stimulus experience in shaping human self-models, indicating personality functions as a dynamic information architecture.

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To introduce a conceptual model of personality formation where embodied sensory experiences take structural precedence over knowledge-based experiences in generating a self-model.
Formulated a conceptual and theoretical framework extending Personality Structure Theory (Version 1.0).
Modeled interactions among embodiment, cognition, emotion, and social experience as an integrated information system.
Posits that visceral bodily reactions (e.g., pain, pleasure, fear, hunger) establish value gradients that determine the significance of lived experience.
Identifies knowledge-based processes as organizers of value-weighted stimuli into meaning, while temporal integration stabilizes these into a coherent self-model.
Conceptualizes personality as an adaptive, dynamic information architecture governed by the continuous interplay of biological embodiment and cognitive processing.

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Matsuoka Takafumi (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa7b2f70926e14a848b18cb https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22699225

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September 14, 2026Open Access

What Is Personality? 2.0 / 人格とは何か 2.0

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MTMatsuoka Takafumi

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Overview

Theoretical analysis reveals the structural dominance of embodied stimulus experience in shaping human self-models, indicating personality functions as a dynamic information architecture.

Key Points

To introduce a conceptual model of personality formation where embodied sensory experiences take structural precedence over knowledge-based experiences in generating a self-model.
Formulated a conceptual and theoretical framework extending Personality Structure Theory (Version 1.0).
Modeled interactions among embodiment, cognition, emotion, and social experience as an integrated information system.
Posits that visceral bodily reactions (e.g., pain, pleasure, fear, hunger) establish value gradients that determine the significance of lived experience.
Identifies knowledge-based processes as organizers of value-weighted stimuli into meaning, while temporal integration stabilizes these into a coherent self-model.
Conceptualizes personality as an adaptive, dynamic information architecture governed by the continuous interplay of biological embodiment and cognitive processing.

Cite This Study

Matsuoka Takafumi (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa7b2f70926e14a848b18cb https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22699225

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