- Judgement: the ability to examine a situation from a number of different perspectives and offer an independent position on the situation based upon hard-won life experiences
- Empathy:Â the ability to imagine a world bigger than oneself and also, the other wonderful people in it, who are also engaging with the world in unique and special ways (well, sometimes)
- Synthesis: the ability to put desperate ideas together (woops, I mean disparate)Â in such a way as to make sense to you and possible someone else
- Analysis: the ability to critical examine an idea, and how it got into your head, and not just describe the idea from a pseudo-objective standpoint (like the objective god of empirical science…shite the robot has spotted me…run!)
- The critical application of XML to significant and important historical (and other) phenomena to bring depth and perspective to angry robots