What does "novel links between disparate ideas" mean?
novel links = those that you make on your own that are both new and not obvious (you don't have to be the first in all of time to have thought of it, but you can't have read it or heard about it somewhere else first--it has to be new to you).
disparate ideas= two ideas (or facts or concepts or theories or any form of information) that are seemingly unrelated
example: genetic bottleneck in humans approx. 75,000 years ago + caldera volcano eruption approx. 75,000 years ago = bottleneck caused by eruption (this is now accepted and seems really obvious but both these facts were known for some time before an outsider to both fields made the connection)
example: width of human female pelvis + width of neanderthal female pelvis = humans and neaderthals could not breed successfully (this is now mostly accepted, after almost 50 years of fighting, due to dna testing)
example: bubonic plague is a tropical disease with a slow rate of transmission + the black death occurred in northern europe during the little ice age and spread at phenomenal rate of 2-3 miles a day in a time before trains, plains, and automobiles = black death not bubonic plague (still controversial)
example: all contemporary depictions of people suffering from the black death resemble small pox + small pox is a cold weather disease that travels very well by foot, ship, or horse cart do to length of incubation period = the black death was not bubonic plague but a virgin soil outbreak of small pox (unaccepted--this is my thesis)
(examples from politics would probably be clearer but they are usually too emotionally charged to be viewed dispassionately)
It makes sense you would think this based on your dismissing of the J/P difference. But this is one of those ones that applies more to SJs than SPs. I accept new ideas if they result in something cool. I need no authority figure or consensus to approve them. I just need my own senses to see the evidence and not just an abstract theory.
do you generate new connections on your own? and what do you do for all of those ideas for which there is no sense data available by which to judge? i don't dismiss T/F or J/P outright but i think they are very muddled and that the questions that are used to determine them are mood dependent (which has been proved in MBTI test-rest experiments among subjects unfamiliar with MBTI).
Again, since I'm not sure what "novel intuitions" are, I can't be sure, but I try not to be hostile and condescending to anyone, regardless of how loopy they are.
really now? =)
Again, no. If the evidence is truly "overwhelming" to my own senses, then I need no authority to tell me anything.
what if the evidence is not overwhelming or even completely absent, how do you decide?
when you intuit something you need no sense data at all to "know" it is true. that's my point! regardless of Ni or Ne, intuition is at heart a-logical, and often involves "knowing" something that both logic and sense data all scream are incorrect but which in fact turns to be true (like the fact that the earth's crust is really a very thick fluid). i would say all N's, consciously or not, only use sense data to bolster intuitions they already accept as true--and only because they have been conditioned since childhood to do so by having to live in a world dominated by sensors. for us, sense data that contradicts our intuition is challenged strenuously before we will let it defeat our intuition.
for me, it is as if there are color trails on every bit of information that my mind encounters. even when i want to turn it off, she is weaving those threads into endless patterns, most dissolve into nothing but those that don't, those that form a coherent pattern are overwhelmingly, self-evidently, true to me, such that it would take a considerable amount of counter-evidence to defeat the ideas.
i wasn't trying to insult S's, i hope you were not insulted, if you like i can offer a clue to guessing N's: we tend to be conspiracy theorists =)
neither sensing nor intuiting is infallible, but as an N, dealing with S's can be really annoying and a killjoy when a great idea takes hold of me.