Alisa Bosconovitch

Alisa Bosconovitch is one of the most interesting character I have got chance to analyze. Structure would be this: first I will start with her superior function, then move to guess which attitude it uses to get dominant function, then find the auxiliary function for her. And then contrast it with other functions whenever possible. This much structure is guaranteed, rest will be added if its necessity is felt. The superior function of Alisa comes closest to the feeling function, which is a judging function. Feeling function deals with evaluation of contents in consciousness by assigning abstract values or finding importance in them. Her orientation throughout the movie appears to be around values. Whether it is about giving strong and sole importance to her personal relations, like towards about Xiaoyu or Shin, becoming fond of humans despite being an AI robot, or even being in investigation for the sake of inherent goodness in it to help Shin Kamiya out. Her life and motto was organized around values. In contrast, a thinking type judges or evaluates same contents and experiences with logical concepts and structural relations. She was a robot who was programmed, yes. She learnt through expansive learning and questioning, yes. That's how her learning model is created, not reflecting her conscious orientation. Even if there are themes and judgements by others which seem logically justifiable, she steps in if they don't match with certain values. Values are given higher priority than the logic. For example, that part where Xiaoyu says while crying on dysfunctional body of Alisa, "Humans always keep fighting, humans should just disappear!" Then her tears fall on Alisa and her circuits are temporarily activated again. Alisa says, "Please don't say that. I have to say, I have rather grown fond of all of you." It doesn't evaluate Xiaoyu's judgement as valid in some logical way, but something that doesn't matches to what she considers as values. Values need not to be asserted violently to call feeling as someone's natural orientation, as seen in her. Coming to her attitude, defined by how her feeling function organized information, it was certainly introverted feeling than the extroverted feeling. Introverted feeling is defined by evaluating contents in consciousness, whether in object or in subject's mind, by comparing them to value-based impressions formed in subject's mind. It is a filtering process where the content is evaluated and evaluated through their subjective factor. Alisa showed this constantly as her dominant function. For every new information, she made sense of it by comparing how it matches to her present values before integrating it to her understanding of personal values. I will demonstrate it with one of the scenes: the scene mentioned when I explained in feeling function itself is evident for her gently asserting her personal values, but I will provide another one. She is very rough with her values, and judges others equivalently, but not violently, often gently. After finding Xiaoyu peeking in Shin's bathroom while investigating, she felt it as a breach into something she puts her value in, i.e. Shin Kamiya. Her reaction is calling Xiaoyu a voyeur while herself doing the same. Its not primal and violent, she says this gently for judging it as breach as per her subjective factor. In contrast to extroverted feeling, she didn't adapted to objective factor of values. She was unintentionally very crude with her behavior, often behaving in public as she shouldn't, like loudly inviting Shin to date, judging Xiaoyu without adjusting to the emotional atmosphere, and all. Even the same last scene, she doesn't adjust to Xiaoyu to agree with her. She instead interrupts to correct her for what she thought was wrong in her moral framework. For the auxiliary function, intuition comes stronger than sensing for her. For sensing auxiliary users, they expand their area of judgment by focusing on sensory or concrete details, which is the perception of actual physicality of those contents. While Alisa had a deeper perception beyond mere sensory details. Intuition is unconscious perception of images in leaps, without causal chains, as its a perception function and perceptions are immediate unlike judging functions. She developed hope for humanity despite having witnessed human greed, hatred, and suffering. Not because how see saw them concretely, but because she saw potential in their strengths to improve and bond with the nature, humans and other animals. She perceived how things could be better. These were not isolated experiences, they instead provided her more details to nourish her moral framework. Intuition's unconscious perception provided her than platform to refine her moral framework, going after which she found deeper purpose and values to serve it, and people close to her. In contrast, for sensing individuals, their moral values are refined by concrete data, like direct observation. But intuitive auxiliaries perceive potentials and possibilities to nourish their feeling function without sticking to concrete details. And being auxiliary to introverted feeling, it is extroverted of course. Her intuition was not merely integrating her understanding of underlying themes in experiences, but helped those external possibilities to integrate those insights to her value-based impressions, which she stood loyal to.