Reply To: Si & Inner Sensory Experiences

[Faeruss]

I see the gripe, believe me. Though I would say that seeking novelty need not take the form of the disparate, random novelty you so abhor. In pursuing novelty, one can pursue and intensify the most salient avenues for fruitful exploration, finding the features that are important, this seeking for novelty can take the form of seeking the best way to update our stagnant and corrupt maps and systems.
 
Yes, perception requires judgement, but so does judgment requires perception, without data to work with judgment cannot operate on anything, there is nothing to parse and organise. It is problematic to say that Pe just sees what is, as what is is not obviously there, as our best cognitive science and artificial intelligence research has shown us. The problem of seeing a world turns out to be highly non-trivial. As I have said, I think Pe navigates and shifts different salience landscapes (read, what shines forth and calls your attention), and the different Pe functions do this differently. It is highly problematic to equate Se with just using one's senses, and a lot of Se's devaluing comes from this erroneous assumption. Erroneous, too, for it leaves Ne people blind, deaf, and wholly disconnected from physical reality, which some are too be fair, but that's beside the point 😛
 
Addendum: The force of Eros, the force to ascend the hierarchy of Being, to reach the highest yet untapped potential, has often been called  the creative advance into novelty. The fact that novelty is possible, true creativity, is as far as I am concerned, a miracle. But I'm not Pe so I perhaps value such things more. One can't have art without novelty.