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On the Thinking function in MBTI

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How a person makes decisions can be about how one feels which is obviously about emotional judgment in the moment but what is thinking?

I was looking into verbal and non verbal intelligence. Both can be internal and external. But as it turns out logic and analysis is happening more verbally on the left brain. Visio spatial is happening on the right brain.

With introvert and extraverted thinking the first being subject to internal processes will find it more conducive to come up with its own ways of understanding. The second will look outwards to what it needs to do. Ti is reflective and does not need the outside so much where Te is in a continuous feedback cycle.

This is where the distinction comes in. Are you more prone to an internal reflection or an external feedback cycle. This tells you that you are either able to think alone or need constant engagement to think. And this will be split into a verbal or non verbal way.

Te with Se for example can happen in dyslexia.

ISFP happen to be good at visual thinking.

But some may be writers and verbalize thinking.

Vision is a very externalized mode of cognition.

So constantly engaged with the external.

Often because verbal is more internalized Ti might think in words. There isn't much you can do actually when you engage only with the self. But it's not blank, you can create all sorts of ways of thinking about a subject. Ne might have you going in different directions. Ni might have you focused on a single idea around which everything follows. Thinking makes use of where to place your concepts/objects.

My mode of thinking is constant engagement. I don't like to be alone without references to think. And I am very visual spatial in how I think. Objects of thought are shaped to form certain functions. They often center around one theme or idea. I don't usually sit alone contemplating. And if I do it happens in a non symbolic thought. Non symbolic thought is closest to Ni I can describe as what it is like for me to have it.
 

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Thinking it self changes how you think.
Predominant mode of operating, of course takes the lead, but ultimately if you are a flexible thinker lots of thinking will change the way you operate too.
 

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When not engaged in the external feedback loop I can partially think internally.

That internal thinking is not as refined tho because of my smaller working memory needed to design or do logic reflectively.
 

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It might be about how much control one has over ones ability to think. Ni and Te combo might seem to present as Ti but it's not the same. Ni gives up control so to find new abstract ideas, it doesn't manipulate them. Ti internally can hold and manipulate information where as information just comes to the Ni function and latter Te does real world experiments to see if it can be made real.

Ti by contrast creates a system knowing where everything goes without need for external assembly until it's complete in the mind. Ne might be used to search out new information if something is missing from the design in INTP - with INTJ the information pops into existence from nowhere but the designs is incomplete so they must look at what can be done externally to find it. Like Isaac Newton would look at what he needs to complete the design by experimenting. He held objects together to inspire more ideas.

The objects in the INTP mind need no external counterpoint. Ti just creates them and puts it all together as mental objects. Ni cannot do that but has "insights" as to the way things are. What INTJ creates need an external reference, Ti holds all references in mind internally.
 

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Ni Te is like a jet engine. It requires motion to move the air towards the combustion compartment to create a jet stream.
Ti Ne is like a crane. It needs panels and ground and it will keep building things up.

Both require accurate data work flawlessly, but Ni Te looks to change things as you go in motions, Ti Ne looks to build up a model and then test it against reality.

Ni Te wants to apply things as you go and see if they work, Ti Ne wants to model things up and then test it all at once as framework against real world.

Ti alone is just logic processing unit that looks how things fit logically, Ne is like a LLM that wants context to know.

Ni is like a calculator that wants the right number of divination, but Te which tells you what equation you need to put in to get the magic numbers.
 
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