Reply To: Seelie & Adaptive vs. Unseelie & Directive: Is it Related to Conflict Avoidance?

[Alice]

I think whenever we talk about any kind of behaviorism being related to certain functions or attitudes of the heart, we have to be careful. Since the functions represent information metabolism, it's my best guess that the attitudes of the heart affect that metabolism process somehow.
I don't believe we can go as far as to say that seelies and unseelies exhibit behavior as clear-cut and universal as conflict avoidance vs non-avoidance. That would be too broad and presumptuous a statement.
What we can possibly conjecture about though, is the phenomenon many unseelies have mentioned about becoming "closed off," or feeling their emotional register "shut off." I have the feeling that this might have to do with metabolism. This may be the same for directive Fe users.
If Fi is a Ji process, and it processes only one piece of information at a time, maybe unseelie Fi is more choosy about the information it processes than seelie Fi. If Ji is prone to get stuck in an infinite fractal tree of analysis regarding an information vector, it's qualities, it's quality's qualities, etc - then maybe unseelie Fi is more content to write something off as not worth the effort if it's taking too long to process. I have no clue how this would work metabolically, but that's my best guess!