In Socionics, the concept of cookbook science springs to mind. I've alluded to this in other threads such as "You can't handle all of it!".
The cookbook says that four spices comprise a quadra and they are mixed in various descending quantities depending on type and or subtype. One can build distinctive taste characteristics from them but when some taste nuances still seem to be missing, a dash of this and a sprinkle of that are often added from the other four remaining spices. This process is certainly adequate for a cook.
However, every quadra employs the same four spices. The base configurations, to which they're being added, makes it appear as if eight are available because the four bases already have their own independent, distinctive flavours. Socionics is structured to study information elements as if they were ingredients in a cookbook rather than actual function.
The functional operation of the four bases (notated by I/E and j/p) have to be considered as separate and distinct from their processing constraints (notated by F/T and S/N). Spices describe the limits on the operation of an information control system, and do not operate on data as would the actual components of the base. Truth be found, the same processors likely exist in every human; the distinguishing factors for Socionics may be nothing more than priority assignments in firmware.
a.k.a. I/O


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