What you may have missed is that I just provided a logical vindication for the belief in free will. Now, if belief in free will can be logically vindicated, it follows that a Thinker needn't find the idea unappealing.
Two brief comments to straighten out the fallacies:
1. What you presented was a faith-based vindication of free will, assuming causality could be an illusion, which requires the suspension of logic and reason.
2. Correlations point to a pattern, which means that outliers are always expected.
So if your guess as to correlation is based on speculative theorising, perhaps along the lines of belief in free will not being logical, then I question this. If your claim follows empirically, then what's the evidence?
In
this study, the following pattern appeared with regard to faith:
Nonbelievers:
INTJ Te aux (23.1%)
ENTJ Te dom (14.6%)
INTP Ti dom (11.1%)
ISTP Ti dom (9.9%)
Unsure:
ISTP Ti dom (19.2%)
INTP Ti dom (16.2%)
ENTP Ti aux (14.6%)
ENTJ Te dom (14.6%)
Belief in a "higher power":
ENFJ Fe dom (91.4%)
ESFJ Fe dom/Si aux (90.2%)
ENFP Ti PoLR (89.8%)
ISFJ Si dom/Fe aux (89.7%)
The results are also indicative of metaphysical outlook, in the embrace or rejection of a "higher power" or "higher truth" that will grant you the freedom to fully dispense with causality.
Actually I was kinda hoping if enough people simply gave their personal opinion on free will we could see if patterns emerged, re MBTI.
Then you could have chosen philosophy instead of the MBTI subforum. For what it's worth, I reject both metaphysical freedom (too Christian) and metaphysical determinism (too Newtonian). If anything, I assume that a probabilistic ontology is the most reasonable answer, but even that is a provisional stance subject for review.
I agree with your reasoning on Fe and Si, especially in a free will- friendly culture as ours, but it presupposes that the concept is purely externally imposed.
Free will is by default externally imposed. It is a so-called
received opinion, which is something people will disclose without considering its origin. Those who have a unique take on metaphysical freedom are by definition distancing themselves from it.
The point I believe Legion has made, and personally displayed, is that for a lot of people the idea of free will just feels natural. Indeed, science is edging further and further towards determinism so free will may become more of a personal inclination as time progresses.
As you stated, it
feels natural. As such, his conclusion didn't arise through logical analysis or objective reasoning. We don't have access to the truth, yet the way we express ourselves--be it through feeling, experience, or thinking--is indicative of type. This, in turn, forms a predictive pattern as to how we relate to metaphysical concepts.
I didn't feel like it was being missed since it doesn't seem like a real thing. correlation isn't causation and all that stuff.
Had you cared to read the thread, you would have seen that no absolute conclusions have been drawn. The correlation points to a higher probability of a certain outcome.
For Westerners the concept of Free Will may be framed from the Bible story but it doesn't mean that that means something.
Then I'll gladly inform you that culture is the primary carrier of ancient memes, from doomsday scenarios to assumptions of metaphysical freedom. Non-Western cultures don't latch on to the false dichotomy of free will and determinism. Rather, it takes a Western mindset, molded by millennia of Christian articles of faith and millennia of Aristotelian (and then centuries of Newtonian) mechanics.
I also find it mind boggling the amount of type stereotypes you are employing here in thinking that only F types are going to subscribe to the hoodoo voodoo of faith since it goes against "logic and reason". completely not understanding the F-ness isn't some nebulous giggling cheerleader with blond extensions who's anxious to make cookies for the boys.
As stated above, it is likelier for thinking types to reject faith-based metaphysics. That's the pattern.
For every atheist T friend I have, I have an F friend who's also atheist. Same goes with spiritual/religious.
You should know that anecdotal accounts are ultimately irrelevant.
Type isn't some catch all dream catcher for one way to be void of free will. lol.
If there is any practical application to typology, then it is found in the predictive patterns expressed by types and their function stack. If we reach a point where the types are behaviorally indistinguishable from each other, then typology is reduced to mere astrology.