Reply To: Function Blending

[Danny]

@teatime ok I think I mostly get your point about Pe leads having a vast inner world. Your Ne ideation is taking place within your mind/imagination so it seems internal although it's evaluating objects rather than the objects' relation to the subject, thus it's extraverted. That makes sense. I would say that I'm generally not very attentive to my physical environment, I'm usually "in my head", but what seems to be going on when I do this is not an exploration of many contingencies or speculation of how things might work but rather trying to narrow in on the "best fit" concept. I'm either anticipating some future event and simulating how it will turn out, or I'm considering ideas and how they fit within the conceptual framework that guides me. When I said that I have an abstract inner world I was more referring to the store of information in my mind that is most accessible to me and that seems to have order within it. I find it easy to draw on abstract concepts whose connection to concrete somatic experiences is not very conscious, however when I do recall the concrete it tends to be in sort of photographic flashes.  How I understand that the Ne-Si axis works is that Ne's extrapolation is guided by the impressions provided by Si, which may not be rich in objective detail but can at least be located within the narrative of the subject's life.