This is very big to me.
"Biological feedback/maintenance loop ". I do not understand this.
Feelings are emotional states tied directly into body processes. Note how easily your emotions will swing around based on what your body is experiencing. Even a chemical imbalance can change what one is feeling and experiencing. Emotions thus are not abstract. It's commonly discussed how the E/I pair is tied into anxiety and/or stimulation occuring via how one's neural network is wired -- I's can't handle much stimulation because their nervous system is too sensitive, so they focus within/withdraw, and anxiety is often an emotion that accompanies that.
Maybe this needs to tie back into the Greek concept of separating mind from body from emotion. All of that is just a way of viewing the world, but it's not necessarily true. We seem to be more holistic in nature, we can't just look at ourselves as a mind. Emotions -> Body -> Mind -> Emotions and around and around we go.
I'm confused about the quotations. What is the definition of "make sense"? Doesn't "Feelings just are" make sense?
Feelings will often seem to be "illogical," and if someone asks you why you are feeling a certain way, sometimes you can't tell them.
All you know is that you feel a certain way. People will often blame themselves for having certain emotions, which doesn't make sense either; we feel what we feel. How we respond to our feelings is what it under our control.
Also how is making sense related to cognitive function?
Judging functions try to make sense of Perceptions and stimulation/input. Thus, both a T and an F are trying to "make sense" of feelings, and both might be misguided in that.
"Feeling" in the MBTI means "values," not "emotion."
This is a typical point of confusion with people new to the system.
Emotions can correlate to certain values (they "validate" values) but are not equivalent to them.
Is this the only relationship emotion has on (F/T)? Don't we judge based ultimately on emotion? Doesn't emotion define value? Is pain emotion? Why do we value survival? Shouldn't that imply that emotion is in (F/T)?
No. If you used emotion to make all your decisions, you would not need T or F to make your decisions. Emotions are just another line of data input that T or F uses to judge things. If an emotion is strong enough, you might CHOOSE to let it control your actions... but you don't have to. People all the time choose to ignore strong emotions if they feel they need to do so; emotions are not in charge unless the will allows them to be.
Emotion isn't the raw stuff of values?
Is it?
Maybe we should define "emotion."
Would a sense of "balance/rightness" be considered an emotion?
If not, what would it be, then?
And, if T detaches, how come it so often works in tandem with F?
As opposed to not working in tandem with S or N? I'm a little lost here....