[Jungian Cognitive Functions] Mesmerised by the ripples - Animals and MBTI

[pinkgraffiti]

Ok, so bare with me. I saw this picture and the caption "mesmerized by the ripples". And thought, hey I could probably do the same at least for a couple of minutes...followed by....what function is that...Se??



Animals think. Cats, dogs...could they think differently...at least between species? Would they have cognitive functions like ours then?
Se I guess so...Fi in dogs? Fe too: would that be what makes them social animals that work well with humans?

And so forth.....

 

[iauiugu]

I've thought about this a bit too. Other animals clearly do have distinct species and individual personalities, but I'm not sure if it would include the cognitive functions, per se, or at least to the level of advancement seen in humans.

Like I can see introversion and extroversion holding, being more judgey and perceivey, maybe thinky or feely... but the distinction between intuition and sensation is probably minimal for most other animals. Contemporary psych theories like the embodiment theory suggest its a peculiar distinction for even us. Plus all those millenia of human history where we've fail to distinguish brute sensed fact with the inferred and imaginal. Often still do.

(Embodiment theory suggests the human mind processes metaphor and literal data in much the same way. Others suggest metaphor even underlies our sense of discrete facts.)