This is interesting to me. When you say FP's are not random over time, is it due to the more solid internal value framework that is applied consistently (in theory) to everything in their life (= to their decisions), and that, although it will be finetuned as needed, in general will remain solid?
Potentially, yes. More exactly while an environment will have some effect on them, they, it seems to me, bring their feeling into the environment as an extra, independent consideration. The feeling is meant to be considered as theirs alone, and influential itself as an environmental causal agent. And since there is this assertion of atomism, or at least the appearance of it, I take it for granted that there is a coherence over time. Coherence over time is if not the definition of environmental independence, then at least a logical precondition of that independence.
EDIT: @Poki: ^ that's "fixed point feeling": feeling as a causal agent in the environment which, at least in conscious fundamental foundation, is not itself (wholly) caused by the environment.
I don't really understand what you mean by waiting on the 'arrival of an actual decision to commit'. What sorts of decisions/situations are you referring to? (I am not understanding simply because I think once I make a decision, I'm very solid in that. I mean, I'm very closure-oriented and like things settled. FP's - by definition of their external function being a perceiving one - will be rather opposite, so from my perspective I feel the same way with them (or with TP's) - always waiting on the arrival of an actual decision. You know? Obviously though we're referring to completely different things.)
Me: So we're doing this?
Fe: Yes!
Me: Righto, lets--what?
Fe: *shudders* Just, can you...
Me: You don't want to do this?
Fe: Of course I do. Just--
Me: No, look, you're upset, or something?
Fe: Let's go! We're doing this!
Me: What?! No! You're like--
Fe: Just do it!
Me: Are you
sure!
Fe: I'm SURE!!!
Me: Okay.
Fe: *shudders*
Me: Faaa--, c'mon, seriously, you don't want to do this at all, do you?!
Etc.
It's not that there isn't commitment. It's that commission goes haywire. I
imagine that this can be overcome by adequate consultation, but my (limited) experience is that even when there is consultation, it is extremely easy to simply not hear what the other side is saying. We are, after all, talking about competing judgment functions. If one side has made a decision about what is right and the other side comes along with a different decision
made under terms that the other side doesn't subscribe to...