For me, I like Ne. In fact, I love it and I need it. It can go wild as long as it does it within the boundaries of my given purpose. That purpose is to expand and shift the larger outline (or "diagram" or "vision" or "model", anything like that) that I've already got in place.
Help move it along. Help keep it from becoming unable to integrate incoming brain food (and thus useless to me). Help keep it from becoming too distanced from actual reality (Pi can get so far gone if you don't constantly validate it in the outside world). But don't try to overthrow, discard, or eradicate it.
This makes sense, thank you. It sounds Ne is there to feed information to Pi, but Pi dictates what information Ne brings in? Being able to keep Ne within any boundaries at all is probably a sign that it's subordinate, lol.
I think that something reminding me of a past experience is just memory. The need for everything to integrate into a constantly expanding/evolving web of concepts already ever present within my mind is what I identify as Pi. That's why I feel a need to compare everything new to everything I'm already "familiar with" and see where and how it fits, what I can do to expand my own model of understanding.
I'm not so sure that something reminding of a past experience is wholly just memory. To use an example, in one of my lab courses we did the same lab two consecutive weeks. I did not notice that it was the same, through all the prep work and doing the lab itself. I think if it were just memory, I would have. There may be a certain way of perceiving the present, perhaps related to Pi use, that causes the comparison to familiarity...
SiNe does show up for me in seeing, or trying to see, the present as analogous to something familiar (I use familiar instead of past because the past is only valued for its factor of familiarity; things do not necessarily need to be a past "experience" for me to consider them familiar). Not just present things, but everything.
This is very interesting too. Is there some 'comfort' in familiarity? Does the analogous-ness of it just kind of, show up in your head, or do you have to actively check against your familiar-things database? (Sorry about the wording...)
I was tempted to say memory again @ first bold but since reading the second bold, it does indeed sound similar to Pi! At least I think so.
From the way you've described Pi here, I think it sounds similar too. By 'because the 'concept' represented by that image is ever-present for me (not temporally distant/removed)' I meant that I didn't have to rewind or search to get to it, it just jumped into my head. And also, it doesn't seem like a thing of the past, it seems to extend through all time, because it isn't stored as an event. My memories (I know this is not the same as Si, sorry about that!) aren't stored in chronological order. They are just random snippets and I have to deduce the logical order of events. This sounds more like what you're saying, I think?
It kind of feels like a stream of consciousness, but backwards. Does that make sense? A widespread series of miniature chain reactions all at once. Sometimes something like "strong but vague feelings of familiarity" followed by a torrent of images, feelings, sounds, etc. supplied by your [separate] memory in an effort to support or pin down those feelings. Sometimes things come up from "memory" that you don't even regularly recall otherwise. This + the inherent malleability of memories is incidentally one of the reasons why Si based "certainties" can be funnily inaccurate sometimes lol.
To the underlined: This sounds very vivid, I don't think I have experienced it. Perhaps this is what people call 'nostalgia'. I'll get the vague familiarity but it won't be followed by the torrent, and I won't trust the familiarity or look for clues that it is familiar. And yeah, memory is selective! haha... that is very true.