[Cimarron]

Originally Posted by Antisocial one

The purpose of this thread is to provide the place for me to find out what people feel/think about abstract things.


It looks to me that I have huge problems when I am talking to sensors.
I am very abstract person but because of that people have trouble in understanding me. (even the Ns)

So I am interested at what level things get to abstract for sensor. I know that there are many kinds of sensors but for now I will just treat them as one group.
First of all, realize that even though grasping abstract concepts may be difficult for S's, we may still enjoy thinking about them.
Is it when I say

1.That the entire system is unstable.
Well, that's really...discomforting. I would rather stick to the system if it works, but if it doesn't I need to know. Then we need to talk about how to fix it. If you tell me my "system" of doing things is "unstable" just because you know it and you want me to know it, but you don't offer a solution or suggestion, unfortunately you're probably going to get on my bad side.

If you're just talking about a structure of thinking, it will still be discomforting, because I build based on systems, and if you knock a block out of the bottom of the pyramid, it means I have to put work back into all that... It's annoying, but useful once we learn to appreciate the insight.
2.That this not going to work because step 17 is undefined so that could slow the process in step 21 what will create deficit of x that will grow until step 26 where will be system breakdown and all other steps will give incomplete data/result.
Better than Situation 1 given above. The only issue is maybe hurt feelings.
3.That their grand,grand,grand,grand..............parents that lived 400 millions of years ago were fish that lived in oceans that no longer exist because continents are on the move.
There's no problem with you saying that. That kind of stuff is interesting to think about, especially when I'm not preoccupied with more immediate tasks. But nothing really comes from that--the question here is "So what?" Unless the problem for the S is that it challenges his system, in which case, what I said in Situations 1 and 2 applies.
4.That everything you see and hear are just illusions created by your brain and that reality is quite different from what you sense.
I've thought about that a lot on my own. I've talked about it with others. Unfortunately, even more so than Situation 3 above, there seems to be nothing you can do about it. It really is fascinating to think about, but...then what? After you're done thinking about it, what do you do with that information?This is probably enough to get us started.

I don't feel that I really accomplished much in typing this response to your post, but I hope it helps in some way. Either way, it was fun to participate in your survey.

And this should be obvious, but don't expect my answers to speak for all S's. The others will be here shortly, I hope.