A General Concept of Personality; the Coherent Volition Regimen

First, and make no mistake about my intent, personality is an essentially human phenomenon. Using the word properly, dogs do not have a personality. Chimps do not have a personality and, above all, machines do not have a personality. However, the consistent anthropomorphic mistakes made in reference to other creatures and even machines indicate that something like a personality is present. In this blog I am searching for that something.
What is a personality? Personality is what makes a human being a person, a special being capable of moral and legal behavior, capable of somewhat rational social existence. A personality is the specific attributes of a specific human being. In the Aristotelian construct we know as 'qua', a thing in the role of other, it is the defining characteristics of the human thing who assumes social roles in the larger construct of social existence. In a simple example, Rex, in the role of lawyer, makes his case to the jury. In the Aristotelian sense, water qua ice, Rex qua lawyer is essentially the same bundle of attributes differently configured. He has the same personality. The problem, then, is to rephrase an essentially human phenomenon so as to account for anthropomorphic errors. Let me try.
A personality is a type of 'coherent volition regimen'  (CVR) composed of idiosyncratic manners of perception, cognition, volition, and action in concert with a feedback loop so that a consistent pattern of relatively unique cultivated behavior, reasonably adaptive over time, is reliably exhibited. That does describe a personality and a coherent volition regimen.
So, dogs do have a CVR but not a personality, although much more of it is wired into their brains than humans have a priori. A robot driven by machine learning also has a CVR but not a personality. They are not persons in the grand scheme of social existence which I examine in the next three blogs.
Next: Personality, Moral Agency, and Coherent Volition Regimens
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