Souls, personal flove
The more quality data, the less needed quantity
What resumes us is the more important information that we could know and share and anyone could resume him-herself with 2 or 3 keywords.
There is always an intended audience we are looking forward to when we are expressing who-how we are. We may want such intended audience to be the whole world, but nobody knows what the whole world is, so we will be biased by and looking at the part of the world that we have and wish to experience.
The keywords that could define ourselves are sometimes difficult to be found-expressed in a direct-formal way because we will find difficult for them to fit all the different possible audiences they will be directed to. Also, we will want to keep our own privacy when expressing to others who-how we really are. Furthermore, such keywords would and should be reflecting a mommentum more than an absolute positioning within ourselves and towards the world, so we will want to change our – add other keywords in the future.
For these reasons, when we register a profile in a platform, we normally (poorly) fill our «About you» description field, because we consider it too reductive andor over exposing us.
So, providing an easy, pleasant and meaningful way for us filling our profiles with keywords is the more challenging feature for whatever platform, because that data is what later on could provide better related contents to us there.
Flove.org free declared principles, mechanisms and target of what it wants to achieve with your data should incentivate you to mine and share more of your more custom keywords (aka: Souls).
WHAT
More ancestral matter, better mask, deeper you
Souls is a projected app for people expressing their keywords through a deep and easy projective way. «Mask» is just a nicer way to call to a Perspective, which is already a nicer and more accurate word than «truth».
Projective tests are quite popular online and more formally considered within psychology. Psychology itself is one of the more accurate outputs of our more inner biological self, and our more inner self is just a more inner part of our body speaking through a more outer one, the nervous system in this case. Also, beyond our actual us who is filled with biological systems (the more complex known matter) we also carry all the ontogenic (very minimally conserved) and material ancestors within, as it is mandatory in the Holism Flove.org believes in and proposes practices for.
So at the Soul app, we invite to describe many «About you(s)» by masking yourself with-as some other fictional entities that you could freely create andor through the more popular types of known inner biological channels (from systems), ontogenic ancestries and else matters as default fields to do so. This way we bring the intended audience pressure (that always will be in and out when we communicate anything) to be more located and matching within our more inner ourselves.
The souls app bets for a greater exposure of your innerself, andbut it offers to do so in a more private way too. For example, first of all, we won’t usually think that by describing another entity that is not us, we are more in fact describing ourselves, so we can feel more free to do so. Furthermore, everyone of us, at some point, will try faking the replies to the app by adding fictional entities andor neutral or funny adjectives instead of more qualificative or formal ones. But, maybe, there is nothing alien to us in whatever we estate (because of the Holism we believe in). And also and even more importantly, perhaps we were destined to say those things and not others (because of determinism – in a deterministic perspective) so the more effort we put in fictioning our descriptions, the more advanced topology to our deeper values we might be more factually proposing.
Within projectivities, there are some of them more useful than others. Souls proposes the default Animal & Colour tests-masks-projectivities because they probably are the simpler closer and broad symbolisms available for describing our meta offers and wants, what could provide the richer relationalities later.
HOW
Play the Souls game the more private, formal or informal you want. That choice will already tell something About you, :). Souls goes in difficulty levels and it is infinite by definition (as our past is for our perception). But you can finish your sessions at anytime and receive a interpretation about you (buy it with the points you got from adding information) which you could save locally, share it with your contacts andor upload the results into a more populated network, where it should build you a default profile with a nick (animal+colour) 3 adjectives for offered values (animal) and 3 for wanted ones (colour) as initial data items which to play them more, i.e. fuzzy conjunctions, use them as categories for offering more material things to promote your values with them, etc.
Privacy caring
More privacy more you
You can and it is highly recommended to enjoy your first experience of Souls offline. We do it this way for showing you that is important for you to be able to hold all your rights about your data.
In a paralel side, for a much richer experience, after you have have made yourself comfortable about your privacy for playing Souls, we highly recommend you to reply with your voice andor video recording instead of just text in a paper or a screen, because through video and voice you could get a more accurate prosodic information, which is more valueable than the more explicit words you may say.
Think that you will only play Souls for the first time once, and such replies could connect you to unknown others in a potentially very meaningful way. So if you would decide to share more your Souls at some future point, others will like to be sure that your replying experience was real – you were not faking the replies to fit someone else’s expectations you knew in advance.
For this reason, we recommend you to play it in our more privacy safe and advanced offline app, where we help you marking the real date of your first test while you still keep the data, which we neither will give it to third parties, nor we will use it for analisys unless you allow us to do so if you later decide to share it more publickly in our recommended networks.
Popular platforms analise your data for later selling some of their space to comercial advertisers. We rather let you choose which (if any) and how much present you want the suggested contents being there. There is a balance between privacy and outreach. If you don’t want to be analised at all, you might be missing matchy bits and others won’t find you that easy, so you will have to do more outreach work somehow else. For us the default analitical priorities are to connect you to whatever other people and more inner contents you may be more attracted depending of the Souls you shared.