But more importantly, I just don’t feel that bureaucrat is the most vivid or descriptive term for the Conductor Delta functions. I…Read more

ETA: Just wanted to clarify that I don't think CT and MBTI have no relationship to each other whatsoever (and clearly you don't either based on your original post). I do think that CT/cognition informs MBTI/temperament, but they are not the same thing and you cannot predict one from the other with 100% accuracy.

@fayest42, yes I agree. I suspect…Read more

All this to say,…Read more

I'm curious about whether are any defined methods or criteria for evaluating whether a person has a light or dark heartude. Is it just a matter of their overall energy or feel, or is there something more explicit that I've missed?

Similarly, Auburn, a while back you mentioned that you’d recently recognized that a person c…Read more

I’d also tend to assume that IN is involved with things like thinking in analogies, cross-contextualization & induction. I’ve thought of it as forming associations between larger datasets that have similar features or are impressionistically similar, no? Also as what I use to fi…Read more

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.” –Ursula LeGuin

So I’ve been wanting to respond to this topic for quite a while, and I briefly outlined some of my thoughts in that video I sent @auburn. Admittedly, I don’t have much knowledge…Read more

Perhaps content-generation through this means will engage…Read more

What did you type as before? What do you type as now?

Do you feel satisfied that you’ve arrived at your ‘true type’? What was the process of finding it like?

Are there specific ways that your personal growth has bee…Read more

I was recently retyped as SiTe after four years of being considered SiFe. I kno…Read more

Previously, a person was either classed as “seelie” or “unseelie, or as “adaptive” or “directive”, as if one could not be strong in both at once, or weak in both at once. But this has proven to be not how the vultology and psychology manifests in p…

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I believe that the influence of culture is very difficult to overstate when it comes to human interactions; many large engines of modern culture feel grossly imbalanced/inhumane to me, and I’m interested to hear McGilchrist’s perspective. I wonder about the criteria for cultural course correction, i.e. the emergence of sig…

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In The Master and His Emissary, McGilchrist explains that the two hemispheres of the brain have broadly different agendas. While the right…Read more

He seems Pe-lead with development in Pi, although he’s another one of those developments that is complicated by drug use, since we don’t yet have a way to differentiate out the vultological effects layered atop of a person from drugs, from their type. Yet, it’s also possible that prolonged drug use may literally lead to changes in consc…

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OK, yes, but it’s sort of lengthy…

What is your personal experience of nostalgia most often like?

Most often, my personal experience of nostalgia involves reminiscing and replaying specific memories. However, the most visceral experiences of nostalgia are triggered by specific sen…Read more

So you can think of the Ne-Si oscillation as having definite dimensions, but indefinite object ranges within them.

Si-Ne: The dimensions are fixed in their local…

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So, I’m not sure how much I relate to the notion of every object having boundaries, as I’ll explain below. What I do relate to is the implicit idea…Read more

Now that Se has been cleared up more in Auburn’s description I’m curious to return to this thread 🙂 I think my protests about Se here were made clear and the ones that matter were accounted for in the Se description, but I’m wondering how do Si users feel about the Si description now? Or is there something you would add?

@animal It's been a while…Read more

And in the case of Ne, the trade-off from realism to possibility opens the doorway for self/other concepts to form that are less attuned to ‘what is’ and perhaps more hopeful of what may be desired/wished-for, or to a caricature that is more malleable to the whims of personal re-construction.

It has indeed been Deltas, more than Gammas, tha…

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. The main point I was making above with regards to Fe, is its tendency to view the self as an object. This doesn’t stop high-Fe’s from feeling and experiencing life with vividness and personal significance (indeed, that seems to be the case), nor without holding preferences.

The difference being highlighted relates more to.. hmm, an ont…

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However, I do have one caveat...This part doesn't quite ring true to me, at least from my own experience:

There is a necessary distance inserted even in…

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It was silly of me to say that I only needed a minute or two to type Bart Ehrman (who, anyway, turned out to be TeSi after all)--the reason I spent so little time on him was actually just becuase he was the last sample and I was in a rush. I got lucky in that he was someone whose…Read more

I think your assessment of the Se/Ni axis being at fault for a ‘dark’ attitude of the heart is pretty acc…

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Between different types, there seems to be quite a lot of…Read more

Are you using it as a tool to better understand yourself, or others?

By far the most obvious response for me would be that I'm using it to understand myself, but I actually don't know if I can separate the goals of understanding myself or understanding others. For one thing, understanding others means being able to simulate their experiences at…Read more

What does this mean, though, at the metabolic level? We see an object through Ne, the memetic ‘meaning’ of the object registers in thought (i.e. “my childhood toy”) and then Si triggers introspective sensory perception –an internal somatic evocation untethered to the present stimuli, but brought up by it. That makes sense to me.

This would als…

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@hrafn – this totally slipped past me in the alpha/gamma thread – and I found it fascinating enough to be its own topic, I hope you don’t mind?

Hahaha, maybe it slipped past you because I buried it in the middle of a 10,000-page rambling litany of grumbling mixed with half-cooked speculation.

There's a lot here in your comments here; I'll have…Read more

What is your relationship to, or thoughts regarding, your local governments?

How do you feel about them?

In what ways are you in favor or opposed to them?

And I suppose more generally– what political stances do you have?

In some ways I feel encouraged by my local community & its government. I know some of the people involved with it and h…Read more

But you just made a helpful distinction! And that is what I likes when typology can be used to explain the ways we are seeing things differently.

Thank you @animal! lol, yes, the irony of that post wasn't lost on me!, since I was using generalizations to say that NiSe's are more comfortable with broad generalizations. I'm not categorically opposed…Read more

Whereas I actually share a certain propensity to focus on ‘how things are’ regardless of my own ideology, with auburn ; whether or not we both see ‘how it is’ the same way, and whether or not we agree on how it ‘would be’ ideally.   I think this is about N&T being blocked together… seeing “how reality is.”

This is an interesting idea, a…Read more

The interview starts at around 1:15.