Perhaps part of the confusion on this board on the use of these terms is because they've been used by Adymus at times without him clearly defining what they mean. Another trouble is that a lot of these physiological cues are subtle "flavors", like the flavor of someone's facial expression looking sad. We don't have too much trouble communicating the idea of someone's face looking sad because we've all seen it and are used to identifying it, but isn't it pretty challenging to truly accurately describe the facial expression of one emotion? Precisely how the face tenses up and so on to show that expression. Yet nobody would say, just because it is hard to concretely define, that sad facial expressions don't exist. The cues in Pod'lair work the same way, but the trouble is we don't have common knowledge words of the cues in question. So while the cues can be experientially observed and absorbed, it's as hard to communicate those observations as explain say, a martian or someone autistic the physiological cues of an emotion that most people can read in someone's face like bitterness or sadness.
I think this is part of the frustration that both people on the INTPforum and Adymus feel when trying to describe or understand this phenomenon, and also why NFs do tend to naturally excel at it. This subject is inherently challenging to communicate the ideas too, and I think this is where a lot of the frustration and misunderstanding happening in this forum is coming from. The only thing I can request is that if everyone (I don't want to single anyone out) chills out and talks to each other more respectfully, and even if they "know" they're right to not talk on those terms, then maybe we can have a more productive and less antagonistic discussion about this system. I think the system itself is really interesting, and it systematizes a lot of physical cues I've noticed (more from gut feeling) for a while now, so I'm interested in it, and I wish we could talk about it more in-depth than we can here right now with the flaming or aggressive writing. It was more like that earlier in this thread when we weren't trying to prove to each other who was right!
