I don't think lacking Se means one can't "react to external concrete details/stimulus/information what-have-you".
I don't think lacking Se means one no longer has sensory perceptions.
Rather, I think of Se as a disposition.
It's a way one orients oneself to the world, specifically with regard to how one prefers to perceive incoming data.
All human beings have sensory perceptions.
Se doms (and heavy users in general) just prefer to deal with incoming data in a more concrete, sensory-oriented way.
That is: they don't like to, or don't have much ability to, absorb the incoming data and see many abstract connections within it.
Hence why I feel that, in many ways, Ne is Se plus abstract connection-making.
(aside: although, I was just thinking about whether the same holds true for Ni and Si, and, at first, I felt that it didn't, as I believe Si does make connections, but, on second thought, maybe these connections are not abstract connections, but concrete connections, and, thus, the same thing can be said for Se, that it makes concrete connections; but, then, that got me thinking on the difference between concreteness and abstractness, which, I am sure, will now be a major question in my thinking over the next couple of days...)
I know your position, and you could stick to your ground there I suppose, but I do believe it's a difficult position to maintain...
Same goes for Ti.
I don't think one need use Ti to be able to ratiocinate.
I just think those who prefer to use Ti more tend to make their decisions based more on ratiocination.
Remember, this is personality theory, not the basis of our entire neurological happenings (unless, of course, you want to make the argument that it is, which, as I said before, I'm open to, but I think is a very difficult position to maintain).
Oh hell yeah.BITCHES YOU KNOW Ne IS THE BEST!
Losing any function will be quite problematic.
However my vode goes to Fe. Since it is possible to completely replace it with Te that is supported with heallthy Fi. (at least in theory)
*shudders to consider a world of INTJs that deny their Fe*
*shudders to consider a world of INTJs that deny their Fe*
This thread is scary.
I'm not sure why it's scary, but I'm pretty sure I know why it's derailed...
Babylon, what did your post have to do with the op?
Not really, given that minor, missable details of a given theory are just that -- minor. You're one to talk about lack of knowledge, you think that thoughts are meaningless to a person's psychological profile. People don't get much more stupid than that.^ Explains your lack of knowledge of detailed MBTI.
Woo Woo Woo. Derail police comin' through! Love your sig btw.
*shudders to consider a world of INTJs that deny their Fe*
Fe is good at reading people, ASO... it's more than just warm and fuzzy
*feels like the only person here who's looking at the big picture of things in a way*
Fe is good at reading people, ASO... it's more than just warm and fuzzy
Yes.
It is a social reciprocal bond. I think you could easily split society along a Te/Fi and a Ti/Fe divide. Either side could drop the other two judging functions and be okay, the society would continue on in a stable way.
However what's neat is that biology designed us to have all 8.
The Te/Fi is more suited to heirachal agrarian society while the Ti/Fe is more suited to hunter-gatherer.
So I wonder if we werent designed to be an adaptable populace. If we ended up settled, the Te/Fi folks would begin to outpopulate the Ti/Fe hunters-yet if things changed and we had to hunt again via a disturbance in equilibrium-the cognitive framework is in place to for the population to become more suited for the hunter gatherer Ti/Fe within a few generations.
Flexible cognitive evolution. neat-o.