April 29, 2007
What's your Daemon
I thoroughly enjoyed reading His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. I was intrigued to learn that it has been made into a movie and will be released this December.
It's a fascinating sci-fi - a look at a neo-Victorian world that has one very radical difference from ours. People have external souls, called "daemons". They can never be separated too far from their people and in infancy can assume many different animal forms. As a person matures (and presumably the personality) the daemon fixes in one particular aspect.
I keep running into the Myers-Briggs test - I just finished taking a related test for a Philips (a company that I hope to join). The movie site provides a test to determine what your daemon is. It looks to be derived from the Meyers-Briggs personality test. The output is your own "daemon".
Here's mine:
