Night
Boring old fossil
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- Nov 2, 2007
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- MBTI Type
- INTJ
- Enneagram
- 5/8
Curious... Would that mean that INTJs do not feel emotions as easily, or do not feel emotions at all? Meaning, is all sentiment from one based on thought mainly, vs heart.
All types feel some level of discernible emotion - INTJs included.
What we label emotion is really a series of complex instinctive behaviors learned from historical experience - the comprehension of which has organically sharpened into sophisticated, chemically-linked, biological adaptations.
To take it a step further (while simplifying my base considerably), I'd wager emotion is fundamentally responsible for what is commonly understood as "morality".
Conversely, protection of socio-political hierarchies (often as an indirect method towards self-preservation) could be distinguished as "ethics" - likely a T domain.
I suspect the notion of an "emotionless" type is less based on empirical properties than the active cultivation of a mythos.