That sounds to me like a natural preference for sensing.
Everyone has both S and N functions. But type is dependent on which we use dominantly. Don't bother relating to people or type descriptions. Understand the functions, then actively observe yours and others thinking to see how yours compare.
The older I get, the more I seem to be in my head daydreaming or thinking, and realizing this always makes me second-guess myself. How do I know I don't have a preference for it? Because I can wake myself up out of it.
Do you primarily use Ne or Ni?
INTPs and ENTPs use Ne, dominantly. XSTPs use Ni, subconsciously. I know, without a doubt, from hanging around my INTP and ENTP friends and observing the jumps they make in their conversation and thoughts, that I absolutely do not have a dominant preference for Ne. In fact, I have to ask them to go back sometimes when describing something, because they jump too far ahead, skipping important details that help me understand.
While we are all thinkers, I approach things from a completely different angle. They see big-picture possibilities. I see the realistic application and holes in those possibilities.
It was a fictitious scenario not about myself that if you were to create a 100% sensor that they would operate in this world (As it is right now) more efficiently than the opposite, it would seem nobody understands what I mean by this so I'm going to try and put it once again under the rug
I shall give you and example of my thought process
A work colleague stated that she was annoyed at management for letting customers get away with scamming them out of a few dollars (In this scenario) I basically told her that the reason they do this is not out of being spineless but rather they are looking at the bigger picture of not making a spectacle out of themselves increasing numbers over quality, she of course only cared about the practical solution of the moment and this just seemed like some random nonsense I pulled out of nowhere
Also you are mistaken, INTPs are Ti dominants and Ne auxiliary. The tertiary or "subconscious" function as you called it for INTPs is Si which notices inconsistencies in detail etc hence the irony of the former (not trying to be mean here just a good example)