There has recently been an explosion of interest in all fields about computation - with computational models for the mind propping up left and right, the question of what computation is has not ever been more important to consider than it is now. Especially relevant to CT is the bearing that the definition of computation has on the…Read more

Unseelies and directives generally repress the controlled embodiment and…Read more

Je and Ji have one fundamental difference to one another. Both of them demarcate boundaries between idealizations of objects (or in other words, they formulate ideal personal values), hence both can be prone to disgust or anger at the internal…Read more

The methodological rigor behind his studies is basically zero. He based his "function presence" analysis on making people self-type using the interaction styles and other Keirseyan dichotomies (which Keirsey himself has said have no causal link to cognitive functions at all), and…Read more

In my time on the CT server, I encountered an array of conversations on the expression of quadra values; most peculiar to me was a particular method of quadra analysis that wasn't quite based on direct comparison between the mechanical components of each quadra (the usual analytic approach to deriving similarities and relations), but…Read more

Blind Prisoner: You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.
Bruce Wayne: Why?
Blind Prisoner: How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death?
Bruce Wayne: I do fear death. I fear dying in here, while my city burns, and there’s no…

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Some interesting discussion happening here. In my eyes at least this seems to be all the more reason for CT to stop using Jungian notation as a whole (especially after the metabolic process explication Auburn made in the post above, which I will attempt to address later on this post - both theoretically and in terms of practical and…Read more

Almost everyone engages in some form of self-stimulating behavior. You might bite your nails or twirl your hair around…

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But this next message should draw links between typology, dialectical monism, and the problems with American politics

In general, I have thought a great deal recently about Freud's conceptualiztions of conscious reasoning / unconscious reasoning and analogies to the ideas of internal languages and external…Read more

Here is where you used the nomenclature. It's not only on this thread, but several others that I have observed this. I am aware that you were not attempting to introduce Keirseyan baggage into your analysis, but you have to understand the four-letter codes have been used to the point where even without the intention of using them to represent t…Read more

The four-letter codes have grown to be largely associated with the Keirsey portraits of each type; which differ rather drastically from the observations we can make…Read more

Interesting response, however, I do still think that some of the points are missing the mark (albeit being fairly fun for me to engage with and think about). Before I respond to them, however, I will follow your steps for the sake of structure and attempt to summarize the main points for your response as a way to construct my own…Read more

This trend will slowly start in 2025 but really mature by 2035. To give a practical idea of why this seems inevitable to me– it’s because of the power of the form factor and use cases.

While I can see while you may think this, I view this issue rather differently, and this arises out of the necessity to view the emergence and rise to pro…Read more

Many of these predictions are fascinating, and as Mitchell has said above, I am very impressed that they encompass such a wide sphere of topics. These predictions more likely than not originate (like the predictions of anyone else) in your mind; the mind has supplied you with premises and pre-stored information, and you have used…Read more

I am personally of the belief that individuation as a phenomenon cannot be systematically modeled, and particularly that Jung's framework for it is glaringly incomplete. Before delving into specific criticisms of the ideas that have been outlined above, however, I think that it is…Read more

It’s like I can trust Ni to make sense of everything passively and it does.

This is interesting because the way you are framing it here makes it sound somewhat akin to a deductive process, one that's trying to solve a problem or reach an insight. You say your main priority is to explore information first and foremost, which implies a degree of s…Read more

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/index.html

http://www.deeplearningbook.org/

http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/

Playground to test networks on:

https://playground.tensorflow.org

One question - does this phenomenon of object immersion happen to you when you are studying abstract phenomena as well? I'm referring to entities that are purely metaphysical or theoretical without concrete manifestation - how does the physical immersion work in this case?

I am asking because theories are still phenomena external to the…Read more

It would take a synthesis of these two parts of the human psyche in order to gain higher understanding and knowledge while retaining the ‘lustful’ and ‘erotic’ elements responsible for human progress.

I don't think I agree with this premise because the 'lustful' and 'erotic' elements (the unconscious libido, as you have mentioned in your analysi…Read more

And it’s often said that God is benevolent, I think this notion comes from the fact that overall humanity is benevolent towards its own existence, else we wouldn’t exist. Often God is conceptualized as being ‘infinite’ or ‘beyond description’ and indeed, we cannot describe what is utterly unconscious to us and as Jung said, the depths of the unco…

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