The Proficiologist

The OpenSense Domain

Communication is essen­tial in allow­ing indi­vid­u­als to coop­er­ate in group activ­ity, espe­cially if the indi­vid­u­als dif­fer in their roles or char­ac­ter­is­tics. Having open access to infor­ma­tion greatly boosts the pro­duc­tiv­ity of a group – in fact, this is the moti­vat­ing prin­ci­ple behind the inven­tion of patents, the inter­net, and open source soft­ware. Similarly, mem­bers of a team are expected to openly share their thoughts and ten­den­cies so that the team can make up for each other’s weak­nesses. In the OpenSense domain, we dis­cuss what hap­pens when impor­tant facets of generic thought are openly expressed and eas­ily sensed by oth­ers in the envi­ron­ment. We will talk about how gener­ics in this domain tend to form friend­ship groups, share infor­ma­tion about them­selves, and engage in play activ­i­ties designed to uncover highly var­ied aspects of each other’s per­son­al­i­ties. The senses in this domain are anal­o­gous to human emo­tions and the invol­un­tary facial expres­sions / body lan­guage used to express such emo­tions¹, but in this post I will mostly focus on the OpenSense dynam­ics in its pure form and only use human behav­iors as illus­tra­tive examples.