@animal - very interesting, I should do such a chart too.

I do explore ideas that don't have consequence to myself if they do to others or if it's a pleasurable thing to do together. When I feel someone needs an opinion, I can come up with different ideas regarding that problem. They usually are alternative paths but they are not highly…Read more

I have been thinking recently of the difference between knowledge that is embodied (S) and knowledge that is disembodied (N). In general I prefer knowledge I can successfully integrate into both categories, but if forced to choose I have a strong preference for embodied knowledge, with the caveat that I try to be ever-mindful that some forms of…Read more

In regard to "realism," it seems to me that SeNi takes the world as it was presented, creating a unified whole from concrete parts, while NeSi takes the possible implications and connections and spins a network to draw upon a blueprint of the world.  So in the former psyche, the world is taken more at face value, while in the latter psyche, the…Read more

The Se description now, feels like an attempt to draw a parallel between Ne and Se - but only written from the mind of a Ne user.

Se is actually in a continuum with Ni. This is why "volition" is so apt, in Socionics - because they actually pay attention to the continuum. Ni is the 'one path' and all the rivers flowing in a certain direction, and…Read more

@tberg

This is actually how I experience my "deep inner psyche" too  - a strong pull toward an inevitability, a destination. All roads seem to lead to the same place. Se is the volition that propels me to move toward it, to make my way to it.  Se is being a 'high voltage' embodied being who actively moves toward the Ni 'current' that my psyche p…Read more

Let me describe my experience to see what we can learn about Ni.  For me, everything I do has an element of eternal significance.  I relate everything I do and experience back to the past and project it into the future at once.  There is a significant sense of time and place wherever I am in my psyche, as though I am traveling cosmically th…Read more

Someone once described Ne as a kite, and Si as the person holding the string. I believe Si may be more attuned to earthy sensual stuff than we are; whereas Ne flies all over the place because it can always come back to that "earthy, sensual" root.  For us, the dichotomy is very different. The root, Ni, is more of a 'rhythmic continuum" - I love…Read more