Sounds like it. Gee igxfl having never read anything about Ni or Si in my entire life and never having commented on it either. I'm going to pat you on the back good job. Keep it up.Recognizing concepts from past experience and swimming in the gists of memories sound like classic Si descriptions.
You have no idea what you're messing with. There is a very significant difference. Apparently your ignorant knowledge make you equate past with Si.
Both use the past but in entirely different ways.
“Because we usually associate Intuition with ‘feelings’ and hunches, the conceptual nature of Introverted Intuition may be difficult to appreciate. Like its Extraverted counterpart, Introverted Intuition is a Perceiving function, but it’s also a left-brain function. The left-brain won’t focus on many things at once. It depends on words and signs to make outward experience predictable and orderly†(223).
“This is most clear in the areas governed by Extraverted Thinking and Extraverted Feeling, the left-brained Judgment functions. ETJs and EFJs, whose Judging skills are dominant, wield language like a knife, separating meaningful sense impressions from all the nameless experiential stuff that surrounds it. Such types may be hard pressed to grant the reality of impressions that can’t be explained or talked about†(223).
“The left-brain Perceiving functions are different. Introverted Sensation and Introverted Intuition make us aware of all our sensory impressions, notwithstanding prevailing categories of knowledge. In consequence, ISJs and INJs tend to have interests and priorities that strike others as unpredictable or esoteric†(224).â€
“On the other hand, as left-brain types, ISJs and INJs also need conceptual control over their outer world. For this reason, both types have a strong investment in the structure of public information. ISJs are concerned with making that structure secure, whereas INJs are interested in changing or improving it†(224).
“For example, at a recent board meeting, an ISTJ accountant told the group that he enjoyed recording the organization’s income and expenditures, but he didn’t want to be involved with the money itself—counting it, bringing it to the bank, and so forth. This is a classic Introverted Sensing approach. Material reality is just so much raw experience. It has to be controlled with a stable mental framework†(225).
“Introverted Intuition moves us in the opposite direction. It tells us that changing our frame of mind can change the world. For example, a recent article advises the parents of a fussy or demanding baby not to describe the fact as difficult but to recognize that such children have vivid, strong, and rich personalities. This is how Introverted Intuition works. The material facts remain the same, but we organize them in a new conceptual pattern that changes their meaning and gives us new options for behavior†(224).
I think Lenore Thomson's writings have some relevance here. I don't entirely subscribe to her version of the functions (I prefer Nardi for his having done empirical explorations of the functions), but she draws several parallels between Si and Ni, even as she contrasts the two.
Lenore Thomson's Introverted Intuition
In general, her classification of the sensing functions is that they're ALL about sensing and the senses, but each one processes sensing in a different way. Si tends to organize and classify sensations, while Ni strives to "interpret" the sensations to learn what they "really mean".
An ISTJ friend of mine totally keeps track of the ENSO (the El Nino Southern Oscillation) and can tell you in exquisite detail what the climate is going to be like over the next few months. This would seem to be entirely predictive, but really it's just organization of facts. He doesn't "interpret" the ENSO, the interpretation is already provided based on past data. Si predicts the future mostly by assuming that the future will work pretty much like the past.
Ni doesn't do that. Instead, what Ni is adept at doing is taking in brand new information that no one has analyzed before, figure out what it means, and make predictions that would appear to have no basis in reality. Making "predictions" based on known data (like El Nino oscillations) is boring to Ni types such as INTJs, though the fact that the link exists is fascinating. Figuring out a completely new problem is where Ni types are at home.
The reason that Ni types are good at that is that they register patterns that can't easily be put into words. It's why the patterns seem vague and undefined. But really, it's no more vague or undefined than a dance or the taste of a pear: it just can't be put into words AND it isn't as concrete as a dance or a pear. Ni thinking tends to be in terms of these patterns, the ability to "just look at a problem" and "see" what is "really" going on underneath the hood. Just as you can taste a pear blindfolded and accurately guess that it is a pear, an Ni type can take in a new problem and accurately see possible solutions to it.
In general, her classification of the sensing functions is that they're ALL about sensing and the senses, but each one processes sensing in a different way. Si tends to organize and classify sensations, while Ni strives to "interpret" the sensations to learn what they "really mean".
It's future-planning. NJs just like to make it sound like it's something special.
Forgive me for being pedantic, but it's the judgement functions that organise and classify, not the perceiving functions. Si "just perceives", in the same way Se, Ne & Ni "just perceive".
Si, pure and simply, is to understand "sensation" as being wholly subjective. "Physicality" is not something you apprehend as something you "submit" yourself to, or how you establish a connection with the world around you - it has the opposite effect of severing that connection. To "sense" the world, in this sense, is to ground yourself in your own experience. This differs greatly from Se, which understands sensation and physicality to be wholly objective, and fundamentally about "connecting" with the world around you - there's a force and reactivity present in Se that Si lacks. Those that prefer Si, because of this, comes across as very grounded, accommodating, and tough to lead by the nose.
I would also posit that Si has nothing to do with perceiving "the future" - it's important to note that Si concerns itself purely and simply with "what is". It just so happens that "what is" is fundamentally attached to the subject, and not the object.
Cannot explain myself too well, but for me, I think Ni-doms are the type who love to talk about things inside the box, and this manifests to something like talking about philosophy.
Ne-doms think outside of the box, and this manifests to creative problem solving.
That's just one example. *hides*
Ni and Ne learning difference:
Ni gathers facts and data, subsumes them under a known concept.
Ne learns using the jigsaw puzzle method. All the pieces are fit together to form a pattern. Unlike a jigsaw puzzle, some of the pieces have to be discovered.
Cannot explain myself too well, but for me, I think Ni-doms are the type who love to talk about things inside the box, and this manifests to something like talking about philosophy.
Ne-doms think outside of the box, and this manifests to creative problem solving.
That's just one example. *hides*
Well actually it's Se that gathers the data. Ni then takes the information and synthesizes it into a whole.
Ne takes the object and reorganizes it in such a way to be influenced from Si's Impressionism.
Can someone describe the Ni-Ti loop for me?
Tnx.