The Channel

Videos

Every TetraTypes film, series by series.

Start with the Video Guides for the full course, or pick a series below.

Every video is on the channel at youtube.com/@TetraTypes.

Essays on film

Conjectures

My own ideas and open questions about socionics, from how a typing should be judged to how Model L's seats work for each mirror pair. Each episode ends with a question for viewers.

Conjectures 12

Shared Sevens: What Every Relation Shares

Any two types share exactly seven of the fifteen Reinin dichotomies. Jared Vaughan's Flow, the Super-Ego's seven, and the rationality swap.

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Conjectures 11

The Flip on Trial: Kimani's Map vs Jared's

Do rational and irrational types fill Model L's side seats the other way round? The club structure, and two questions for LIIs.

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Conjectures 10

The Mirror Map

The wrap-up to the mirror pairs: one rule, two decks of side-seat cards, and the back-row predictions for EIE/IEI and EII/IEE.

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Conjectures 09

Graft and Craft: LSE vs SLI

Delta's mirror pair: four predictions from how Model L's side seats swap between the LSE and the SLI.

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Conjectures 08

Code and Command: LSI vs SLE

Beta's mirror pair: framing or brainstorming, steady or in bursts, and what fuels the creative.

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Conjectures 07

Glow and Ease: ESE vs SEI

Alpha's mirror pair holds the same side-seat cards as the ESI and SEE, in different seats.

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Conjectures 06

Principle and Possibility: ESI vs SEE

Gamma's ESI and SEE: the inner world in front, the physical world behind, and four predictions.

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Conjectures 05

Hands and Eyes: LIE vs ILI

Gamma's LIE and ILI: four predictions from Model L's side seats.

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Conjectures 04

Anchor and Spark: EII vs IEE

Delta's EII and IEE: how Model L's side seats swap between mirror types.

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Conjectures 03

Mood and Momentum: EIE vs IEI

Beta's EIE and IEI: confident or careful, steady or in bursts.

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Conjectures 02

Same Seats, Different Twins: LII vs ILE

Jared Vaughan's challenge to Model L: four predictions for how the LII and ILE differ.

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· Conjectures 01

Socionics as Reverie

Why a typing is a reading of a person, not a measurement, and what makes that reading good.

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Animated structure

In Motion

Claude-coded animation set to music. Each episode takes one structural idea and moves it until the logic shows.

· In Motion 02

Socionics Is Not MBTI

An animated comparison of socionics and MBTI: type letters, Model A, Beebe's archetypes and intertype relations.

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· In Motion 01

One Swap: From Model A to Model G

Jared Vaughan's seven element grids in motion: how one swap transforms Model A's quadras into Model G's.

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The core course

Video Guides

The long-form route through the site: the introduction, Model A in depth, then the full Model L technical sequence.

Video Guides 01

Introduction to TetraTypes

What TetraTypes is, how the site is arranged, and why the fourfold structure matters.

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Video Guides 02

Model A: The Seven Aspect Dichotomies

A 37-minute explanation of the seven splits that generate and distinguish the information elements.

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Video Guides 03

Model A: The Eight Function Positions

The architecture of the Model A stack: blocks, dimensionality and function dichotomies.

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Video Guides 04

Model L: 16 Monadic Elements

How Model L draws sixteen distinct elements out of the classical eight.

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Video Guides 05

Model L: Central, Radial and the Four Capacities

Central and radial structure, the four capacities, and how the positions are generated.

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Video Guides 06

Model L: The Four Vergences

The four vergences and how they organise the higher-resolution map.

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Video Guides 07

Model L: The Four Currents

Primary, Complementary, Supplementary and Ancillary.

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Video Guides 08

Model L: The Four Perspectives

Necessitating, Accepting, Producing and Supplying.

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Video Guides 09

Model L: The Four Arrays

Array as a function's assessment style and its way of reaching decisions.

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Video Guides 10

Model L: The Four Interests

Bold and Discreet, Pertinent and Incidental, and their Reinin correspondences.

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Video Guides 11

Model L: The Four Occupations

Purview and the Occupation groups: Engrossing, Peripheral, Collateral and Attendant.

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· Video Guides 12

Model L: The Tetrachotomies

How the Reinin dichotomies, the Model A function dichotomies and the Model L tetrachotomies fit together.

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Short films

Conceptual Foundations

Short films on the ideas underneath Model L, before any of its machinery.

· Conceptual Foundations 01

Model L: From Position to Coordinate

Model L reads functions as coordinates in a generated field, not as places in a stack.

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· Conceptual Foundations 02

Model L: Aptitude Is Not Priority

Dimensionality and priority come apart, and their difference creates demand.

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· Conceptual Foundations 03

Model L: Four Metabolic Worlds

The four quadras as four ways information becomes meaning, significance, purpose and value.

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The other schools

In Depth

Source-led readings of the theorists who built socionics after Aushra, and what each one changed.

· In Depth 06

Vladimir Mironov: When Eight Aspects Become 140

Mironov's 140-aspect proposal and what must connect it back to the eight.

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· In Depth 05

Vladimir Ermak: The Eight Aspects Are Not a List

Ermak's attempt to derive the eight aspects from a structure rather than list them.

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· In Depth 04

Oleksandr Bukalov: Model B, Subtypes and the Limits of a Bigger Model

Model B's sixteen-component architecture and what a bigger model costs.

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· In Depth 03

Grigory Reinin: Knowledge, Information and the World We Bring

Reinin's account of knowledge, information and the observer.

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· In Depth 02

Viktor Gulenko, Humanitarian Socionics and Model G

Gulenko's school and the model it produced.

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· In Depth 01

Victor Talanov, Model T and the Reinin Dichotomies

Talanov's statistical testing of the Reinin dichotomies.

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Visual studies

Atlas of Ideas

Wordless sculptural films. Each one builds a single structure in three dimensions.

· Atlas of Ideas

Constructing Model A

Eight rotating cubes assemble into Model A's four blocks: Ego, Super-Ego, Super-Id and Id.

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· Atlas of Ideas

Constructing Presence: The Presence Cube

Strength, Value and Boldness across the eight functions.

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· Atlas of Ideas

Capacity in Motion

LII in Model L: sixteen fixed elements and the four Capacity groups.

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· Atlas of Ideas

Reinin Dichotomies

The fifteen Reinin dichotomies across the sixteen types.

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· Atlas of Ideas

Model L in Motion

All sixteen Model L configurations, cycling through Capacity, Vergence and more.

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Relations in story

Between Types

Short dramas that follow two types through one situation.

· Between Types 01

When Understanding Isn't Enough

An LII and an EIE through a cancelled event.

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Music videos

Songs

Socionics set to music.

· Songs

Eight Signals

Socionics as channels broadcasting through the night.

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· Songs

Sixteen Ways of Seeing

One rainy street, four houses and sixteen ways of seeing.

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