What cognitive functions do you most want to develop? What do you think you are missing?
Are you more theory bound or does your framework of the world include the limitations of knowledge?
What do you think about a probabilistic view of reality?
What do you think about an empirical approach to knowledge?
Do you think just as language at times can explain what science cannot - That also their are phenomena that exists but we have no words for?
Does language shape how we see the world?
How much of our thinking is path dependent based on paradigms both past and present?
Can do you free yourself from that?
Are religions attempts to explain reality?
What religion does the best job at doing so?
Do you believe words are models?
Do different domains require a different approach?
1) Would like to have greater Extroverted Feeling as I would like to feel more connected to others and a greater amount of extroverted sensing (which is undefined for INTP)
2) My framework of reality is theory bound, for the most part at least. I accept the limitations of present knowledge (and perhaps knowledge itself), but we can't do much with what we do not know, so I don't believe in blind speculation or an arbitrary filling in of the gaps.
3) My view of reality is fairly probabilistic in nature. I find the idea of Bayesian epistemology very fascinating and plan on learning more about it.
4) Knowledge requires more than empiricism. You can see what is happening without knowing what is going on. Knowledge is building empirical based models that provide predictive capability of reality.
5) I take this as an almost a priori truth, of course phenomena exists that we have no words for. Whenever a new phenomena is discovered, it is added to our scientific vocabulary. For example, there was no words for 'Photoelectric effect', 'DNA Replication', 'Meiosis' a few centuries ago, although such phenomena had always been present. Likewise, there is internal phenomena that cannot be expressed in words such as those various fleeting ethereal oddities of consciousness - the strange de ja vu like stuff. Also the experiences people can have while on psychedelics transcend language but are still phenomena of human consciousness.
6) Language hugely shapes how we see the world. For example, a colour is a spectra of light, cultures have words for specific spectra of light, e.g 620-700nm light is called 'red' in english. Some cultures have more colours than English, some have less. in some languages, green is considered a shade of yellow. In Chinese, there is a 'colour' that spans both blue and green (é’). I talked to a friend of mine whose partner is doing studies in Discourse analysis, her view was that reality all comes down to words.
7) A very large part of our thinking is influenced by paradigms.
8) Paradigms aren't completely bad. Why free yourself from them completely, be critical of them
9) Kind of. Spirituality and belief in God are attempts to explain life and reality, but I think there is more to organised religions than God, I see them as instruments of power and control
10) None of them do a good job, because they lack predictive capability about reality. The 'best' ones would be the ones which are the least dogmatic because even if they don't help at explaining reality, they at least won't hinder it. So from that, I'd say Buddhism
11) That's a hard one, I'll need to think more about it
12) Yes, but this is not always the case.