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No it's vastly increased. All that happened is it moved from boards like this to Twitter and Facebook. Same thing happened to Usenet Gopher when boards like this took over. Overall discussion is far greater though. I still prefer those old days and boards like this. Can't stand Facebook and...

Fix what, perceptions? Wrong department, I don't work in changing perception. If you think the mere existence of inequality is the problem, think again. Inequality creates wealth for all, rather than the reverse, at the expense (if you want to think of it that way) that some people happen to...

Behavioral finance shows us that people judge their well being relative to their peer group. Given that uniform equality is statistically rare (one particular state out of trillions of possible states) that means there is most likely to be a curve on how well off people are (e.g. inequality is...

Possibly, obviously I?TJ. How do you disambiguate ISTJ from INTJ? Attention to detail mainly. ISTJ's are Si dominant and every one I know spends their adult life adding to and drawing from the wealth of detail they know about some subject. INTJ's however are more into playing a part in some...

She's clearly a thinker and Bill a Feeler. Thinkers don't show emotion above the facial midline, whereas dominant Feelers do. Look at the eyes, hers are flat while Bill is alive (Thinkers typically pair with Feelers in marriage). Further she shows little of the ideation that INTJ's are wont to...

Fire! Fire! Fire!

The first amendment to the constitution So yes I agree. However a press organization isn't an individual, correct? Do all the rest of the individual rights apply or not apply to the press? In other words, I get your point that "press" and "individual" are seemingly lumped together, but the...

Yes, it's fundamentally how our brain works in that we build models of the world. Even something as 'simple' as vision. The visual signal is decimated into 12 channels then a visual model is build up in the brain from that. In the O3 region (IIRC) we also have the '3D artist'. This part of the...

Great question, I don't know. My simpleminded thought is that as indicated by their name the neurons act as a kind of doppelgänger for the other person. Then our brain 'incorporates' the other in the way. In Jung's terms we form a temporary complex in response to other which gives our ego...

DARPA has been working on that for a long time. Not much headway I gather until deep learning came about. Now you've got companies like CAT (Caterpillar) running Caggle competitions to detect when heavy machinery operators become sleepy or distracted. So, yeah. The concept isn't empathy...

Doing a search for "INTP flow" results in a number of good hits. Others (e.g. Personality Hacker) have discussed Flow and type. Breaking it apart I think we can say that different types will experience flow along two axis. The first is the type of activities where Flow is possible. For...

If you accept Dario's work as valid it's the most empirical demonstration of the functions as the primary elements. Add that elsewhere has stated that he sees the eight functions operating in all of our brains (to varying degrees) and you must concludes Beebe's model (or variant) as canonical.

You need grist for a mill, and likewise need a subject to practice thought upon. You can't do it in the abstract, but you need a medium to work within, such as words, computer code, architecture design, or the like.

Do you recall where he said that? It sounds familiar. In Csíkszentmihályi's original formulation of flow it was skill meeting an appropriate level of challenge and feedback that produced the state. So Nardi is saying that INTP's have it when they experience expertise - that is they are using...

Fe dominants can give this impression, but not auxiliaries and certainly not inferior Fe's. The view of several Ni dominants I know is that his visions were rather immature. My observation is that is true, comparing the visions of these I know and his. This would indicate a non dominant Ni. If...

However that approach doesn't work here. For example, why is Ti for an INTP so different from a Ti for an ISTP? Same function, same place in the stack, however it expresses very differently. My brother is an ISTP as are many of my coworkers so I can provide specific examples if you wish. This...

In my experience the archetypes as the kernel of the complexes are useful. Jung's idea was that the first thing you encounter when diving into the unconscious are complexes (he discovered this with his word association work). In neuroscience terms we'd say that they were patterns impressed on us...

I have amazing (calling Donald Trump ... calling Donald Trump) powers of concentration, but I'm fairly easily distracted. Ne no doubt. If I focus on being focused I will achieve flow, measured by losing track of time. Pleasurable, but it doesn't happen spontaneously. The side of me you see...

What's his evidence for that? And how does he define harmonious? In fact we have really good evidence that mankind wiped out the Woolly Mammoth, if not the Saber Toothed cat. This is harmonious living? The premise is flawed. The only point on this planet is evolution, so going 'right' is...

Sorry I didn't make this clear - that's where I'm at, I'm not taking this as canonical. Previously I had ignored the 8 function model as possible voodoo, the Se/INTP insight opened up that the 8 function model might have some legs. Which is why I posted this thread, trying to understand the...

lame Study GR, SR, QM, QCD and you can 'project yourself through space and time' just fine. That's what the equations are for! Half your time in math, physics and engineering is spent in visual models after all. Einstein developed SR by imagining riding a light beam, if we're to believe his...

Don't forget the pluperfect, the past as played out in the future.

I don't think it's that simple. We've had discussions here about Beebe's trickster function for the INTP - Se. It manifests in a crude, slapstick sense of humor and physical deviency (petty theft, etc). I've seen both behaviors in several INTP's which lends credence to the idea, and is a...

Dario Nardi's EEG experiments shows that the flow state across types corresponds to all the major top regions of the neocortex (F3, F3, F4, etc in the 10-20 system) are working synchronously - meaning they all are equally active. I don't think he said what that means exactly unfortunately, as in...

Yes, recently that's been proven to be virtually 50/50 (51%49% actually) in the largest study of its type of some few thousand identical twins, IIRC. So, two people with identical genetics, were only about 50% alike in life, by the many measures they used. On the Archtypes - all of them (Jung...

Hillman, and Jung's probable best successor Von Franz (with the rest of the Valkyrie groupies) did run with this archtypical approach to personology. Unfortunately to my mind mainstream psychotherapy adopts those ideas more so than any MBTI variant. The problem is that an archtype approach like...

Yes! Bingo ... credit on that goes to Mary Jo (INFJ) who is a friend of Dario's. This trickster bit is what got me believing in the shadow functions, but the Ni part has me puzzled as I said. In his Google talk and elsewhere Dario says that yes you do see all the functions operating in all...

Does it? Taking a stochastic approach as Dario does yields results with R better than random, what more do you want? Most of the world works this way. Taking an example of the midline theta oscillation (which the Japanese got really interested in for some reason), all the many studies I read (a...

Cool, do you work in the field?

Neat, how did that work out?

Glad that's cleared up.

Dario is an INTJ so might be a good person to explore his thoughts on the type.

The podcasters are really bad - Dario was a good sport but they had no idea what they were doing. Do you have any insight as to what your sixth function may or may not do for you? The example above is INTP, but presumably the idea carries across types in some way.

I think MBTI/Jung's typeology is clear - when using your top functions you get energy from them. When using the inferior/shadow it takes energy, with the important caveat that the latter do operate in the background unconsciously to some degree. So can a INTP 'fake' or perform Ni actions? Of...

Well, yes, but that's true of all thoughts in a psyche with free will. Here I think he just uses it as an example to illustrate the kind of thinking that goes on with this case. That's his research, he hooks up a EEG to people of different types and has them perform various tasks. From this he...

Dario Nardi claims that the sixth function (Ni for the INTP, archtypically known as the "Good Parent") plays a specific role in the psyche as follows. In this video he brings up the example of the INTP and claims that those who integrate/develop Ni can have a vision and a purpose about the...

Dario Nardi claims that the sixth function (Ni for the INTP) has to do with this. In this video I watched, he brings up the example of the INTP and claims that those who integrate/develop Ni can have a vision and a purpose about the future, and can for example write a book or develop a theory...

I've skied a total of three days in my life. First day was on the bunny hill; I got hooked and pushed at it. Day two I mastered the bunny and went on to beginner slopes. Day three I made it to the harder slopes. At the end of day three it was getting dark and I was racing down some slope by some...

Despite appearances getting stuck is a constant companion. It's cyclical and depends on what I've got going on. For example, atm I have a project I'm working on so the down periods aren't as down as when I don't have anything particular going on. There's several cycles, weekly, monthly and...

... conjure ...? I take life seriously in the mien but overriding that is what I eventually realized was an absurdist outlook. Nothing special other than recognizing that 99% of human activity is completely absurd and pointless. The main affect is that I'm not terribly affected by events...

Minimizing the physical to the bare necessity works for me. Which is taking the most minimally optimal care of my body I can in diet, exercise and mental mind/body (meditation), so that my physical nature is the least bothersome. Bring the physical part of my life closer to an ISTP? Why would I...

So if I follow your theory you posit that MBTI has specific regions of the brain that it uses to operate. Three problems with that; one your example diagram is 2D, what you need is a 3D model. Where are these regions? Pure neocortex, or deeper in the cortex? The second problem is you haven't...

Good thoughts here, something I've pondered as observations of ISTP's show a Ti which appears different from the INTP Ti. Is it just expression or is it also the 'nature' of the differing individuals Ti? I think it probably has to be the latter. First it gets into what Ti is exactly. My theory...

by Cal Newport, a millennial CS prof. Your library should have it, if not get an eBook. For all the career seekers out there I recommend reading the above book. Rather than the saccharine "Follow your passion" advice he takes an evidence based approach to get the career you want, and along...

Define "theoretical fundamentals" for us. Nothing about behavior, but a (theoretical if you like) description of arrangement of mental preferences. Notice the term "mental functions", e.g., not behavior but a configuration of the psyche. I'll take a look at that, have not spent much time with...

Sounds like a bundle of fuck. Relationships are a balance, you want similarity and difference in equal parts. So people tend to align in practice on their first and second letters (I's with I's, E's with E's, N's and S's with each other), and differ on the third and last (T's with F's, J's...

Good thoughts. I found that a balance between these factors works best. I do like detail work - just not 100%. Having Si teritary would explain this. Likewise I like high level work, but I find it unbalancing if there is too much. Using MBTI I've crafted a career approach for me, where I break...

Good work, I find it useful to compare various Personology systems as they all are effectively similar at the core, but have different insights. However one of the videos compared the psyche to an algorithm which is a false analogy I think. A classical algorithm is like a recipe, what little...

Dominant and inferior collision - Ti against Fi, Fe against Te. Fi is repellent to the Fe inferior INTP (e.g. Albert Einstein eschewing the "merely personal"), and Te is opposed to Ti (all the extrovert and introvert counterparts work at cross purposes). For comparison consider the INFJ. They...

The blue end of the spectrum specifically. There are cones in the retina that are for the exclusive use of the circadian system which respond primarily to this wavelength. Having red nightlights, and redish lights in the evening is a good idea, I have WIFI bulbs (Philips HUE) which manage...