Kalach
Filthy Apes!
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- Dec 3, 2008
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- INTJ
This is completely off. Ne is ALL about arriving at new insights by creating connections between previously disparate fields of thought.
Well hey, I keep having the intuition that Ne people misrecognise Ni as some kind of jumped up Si, it seems only fair that I should misconstrue Ne as some kind of whacked-out Se.
Creating, you say? I want to say that I'm involved in creating too, but I'm not immediately aware of how the creation occurs. At best I can say it's a relatively sophisticated juxtapositioning--placing concepts side by side and having linkages spring up. It's not random, things seem to have glaringly obvious opportunity for juxtapositioning sometimes, and one takes it from there. I think it must have something to do with growing accustomed to abstracting content and, I guess, growing it. But I wonder if this paragraph includes really any more content than "I just see it, man." I guess the thing to add is one needs to have a feel for what is or isn't fruitful... although it seems a lot of the time that it isn't a conscious decision what is and isn't fruitful.
Then again, maybe it doesn't just happen. I know for instance that if I want to work out the answer to some problem, I know I have to seed the bed--read a few books, look at a few choices in the conceptual area, give myself something to form. But that's just the conscious processing part.
Dunno. What does Ne do?
In another thread on this, it seemed you all preferred the term "meta-perspective", but that to me is harder to understand.
That was the other yo-yos. (I think. I don't remember if I agreed or not, but it doesn't sound like something I'd agree to, if only because I don't know particularly what it means either.)
I dunno. "Meta-perspective" might be a stand in for an idea of a perspective that manages perspectives. A way to be among perspectives and have an view of what perspectives lead somewhere. It'd be, well, I don't want to say idiosyncratic, but certainly it'd be subjective. But maybe the view of views is the way views are selected for fruitfulness. Maybe it's the semantic operator I was trying to get at before.
(But, as one may see, I am merely combining ideas here--taking the word "meta-perspective" and some concepts from the semantics of formal logic--and I'm aware of doing some of them injustice... if I'm taking a meta-perspective here, it's rather more like the putting together of disparate parts and selecting, or abstracting, from parts of those parts to form some new concept....... this is (conscious) Ni in operation? It's the Frankensteining of new concepts?)