Kalach
Filthy Apes!
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2008
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- MBTI Type
- INTJ
"When I care about this, I need to participate (make it real)" (?)
I do not think potential needs to pass a test of 'feeling reality'.
I meant more to claim that Fi reaction in the moment is calibrated by comparison to past Fi reaction as recorded in Si events. Or that Si acts as a library of feelings past. And that this is a possibly only semi-conscious process. (It presumably becomes more conscious during the times one actively seeks to raise the ghosts and assess.)
The overall idea is that Te and Si are there as semi-conscious checks on how Ne/Fi will go about their normal business. The Ne/Fi is far, far more conscious and in control, but (presumably) there's still those shaping semi-conscious backgrounders.
For you see, I believe I have seen Si at work in young ENFPs. They routinely make clear claims of a wish for a steady, quiet life. And I'm like, woah, what the--, who--, what's going on here? My hypothesis is that's Si reaching up its staid black tentacles to squeeze Ne/Fi into some kind of realistic shape. In 19-year-olds.