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Adymus: For the record I am not terribly impressed with the subjective opinions without scientific substantiation to back them up. If you want to prove something to me you had better talk to me about the causality of your inferences, from whence they are derived, and what would in comparison...

@Mango - I watched one of your videos on reality tv. I was quite impressed with my identification with the mannerisms you exhibited during the video. It was rather adhoc but it was lucid as well, and I could see myself in you as you drifted from thought to thought. What I find odd is that...

Let me also add to this that throughout the course of my life, my natural tendency has always been to gravitate toward theory. I studied Music Theory, which I was quite good at by the way, and later I got my BA in Political Theory (classical philosophy with a political twist). I am a...

Well actually I'm not. I took the test about 8 different times recently - everything scored as INTP; additionally, when I took the test via a psychologist in 2002-ish, they recorded me as an ISTP, however, the only true indicator was Thinking - everything else was greatly subdued, and being as...

YouTube- Regina Spektor - "Eet" [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Sorry PI, But I have had many bad experiences that have unfortunately tended to color my perceptions surrounding certain issues. At times the issues themselves tend to function like strange attractors - and for this I apologize for my response, its assumptions and intensity. After rereading...

Like with the experience related by Dormouse, I think that just because the decision making process does not align for us along the Fe axis, that that does not mean we are not capable of feeling deeply or recognizing within ourselves strong emotions in sympathy with those whom we observe. I...

Hey - FYI - this is exactly what I am not about =) --I Thought Mango might enjoy this-- www.thepopularclub.com I thought this was humorous because he is using Domains by Proxy, Inc. - evidently he does not a desire to be so popular as he claims! Administrative Contact: Private...

@BigApplePI Is it possible you are an Fe and not a Ti?

You underestimate the Imperatives of Rational Thought, and you miss the point of Minsky's premise entirely; emotions need not control us (we are rational beings, self-aware, self-directed, and with a full capacity for the rational transcendence of limitations imposed by sensory input - if you...

It's just a visual - don't get carried away... :confused: See it is all ruined now !

YouTube- Clannad - Coinleach Ghlas an Fhómair

YouTube- Duran Duran - Ordinary World (2003 Digital Remaster)

Marvin Minsky has written this great book (published in 2006?) called The Emotion Machine. Its central premise is that emotions act as switches that turn on and off various configurations of biological and cognitive 'resources.' For instance, anger may be a phylogenetically inherited 'switch'...

Ursus Erectus? Now I know who the real Sasquatch is. :cool:

Spoken like a true Rational! Exactly right in all respects. The experience of the Journey is what is of inestimable value. I want you to know that I hold in highest esteem your reservation against speaking the findings of your own experiment into the unbiased tabula rasa upon which I intend...

Dude, Tigers Rock. Ok, this friend from kung fu told me this story about a video he can't seem to find anymore about a tiger that had just killed some critter and was lounging beneath a tree next to it after his first meal off the thing. As he lay sleeping next to a nearby body of water, a...

WOW - well first off, much thanks to Lyra, Adymus, BigApplePI, and Mango for your contributions, input and support. Thank you Adymus, Fullerene, and Shoeless for forgiving my unmitigated excitement about my project. I am a bit embarrassed now but naturally that comes with any attempt to be...

Yes, I agree that to whatever extent possible one should attempt to retrain his/her thinking and behavior in order to adapt. Unfortunately there are times when the world is not a friendly place and when the scarring is so deep that due to the general dissolution and dispersion of confidence and...

Yes - sensing types tend to think in terms of words as being the most abstract form of reasoning - but this just is not so. The natural predisposition of the brain is not necessarily dependent upon verbals structures. In fact, most of what I think I find, just as do you, difficult to place...

Emotional states occur often prior to reflection and at the visceral level; this being said, emotional states also are influenced by patterns of thought and reflection. There is a fine line between milking an emotional state for emotional 'license,' correcting newly perceived emotionally...

My mother, most probably an INTP such as myself, was harshly scolded and reprimanded if not physically punished for her dominant inclination to use her left hand. As a result she learned instead to use her right hand; however, this did not prevent my mother from her artistic talent (she had...

I would not say it was premature - potentially it was found to be useful - but premature no. Psychology has its origins in philosophy, as do many of the sciences (in as much as the methods enlisted for proofs and the discovery process are concerned), which does not necessarily orient psychology...

Minsky (http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/) has a lot to offer here. He believes in essence that we are tantamount to a sort of biological machine - whether or not this is anyone's personal view on the matter, and whether or not there is attribution in such statements to randomness or whether to...

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I suppose you could interpret my excitement about the idea in such a way, however, it is not self-promulgation that interests me but connecting with other people here as well as elsewhere. I could probably have curtailed my excitement a bit by confining myself to this post, however, that did...

gee i broke the mold again - i did not select curiosity because that goes without saying.... :/ - wooops... oh well - can I ask for a different poll ? In truth I was not clear on any of my choices other than Independence... the rest seem to trivially portrayed for the complexity with which I...

What an interesting correlation: Courage is indeed the province of making emotionally discerned decisions from a perspective of introversion; this is what I gleaned from your statement about being an INFP in relationship to you choice appellation. Being an INTP, conversely, I experience...

Is that a Maine Coon that you are sporting there - or is that some other huge breed of cat? Those things are immense =) - I much prefer Siamese Cats myself, however, I am generally quite amenable to felis catus on the whole as long as they are not terribly wimpy dispositionally speaking...

After a cursory review of some of the reasons folks have picked their names, it occurred to me that perhaps in many circumstances the name itself is more self-explanatory than any explanation - it would be tantamount to transliterating a poem into an array of interpretive concretes; yet while...

Should I have posted under websites of interest or whatever that topic is called? I figure that this is appropriate here - but if it is not then I am sorry to have posted here and would like to mend my thread so that it is in the appropriate place. Note: I have seen little in the FAQs for...

I first discovered extroversion during my senior year in highschool. I had this fantasy abou the Beatles and stardom that went all the way back to junior high and my first year in highschool - I wanted to be in a band so I could have friends like the fab4. And I felt that there was this...

Um... bat - no way - not remotely intelligent - I vote horse :) Horses are aloof and yet kind but smart and strong. They have a sense of themselves but don't attempt to bully other beasts - they are freedom oriented like all INTPs - yeah FREEDOM!!!! =)

I think ENTPs are cool - like Peter Gabriel - he is awesome. Anyway just a little input there. I am an INTP - yet at one point in time I took a test that seemed to indicate that I had equal indications for extroversion and introversion. In light of this I am conducting an experiment this year...

Regarding your post below ---- I am doing an experiment this year that you might find interesting. I am looking into the ways that an INTP such as myself may in fact trasnform into an ENTP or at least grab some of the survival skills of ENTPs and make use of them ! check it out...

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I decided for the New Year that I was going to do my best to tackle problems by appropriating extroversion from my close cousin MBTI type, the ENTP! I am and INTP, and if anyone is interested in this experiment, and what I/we uncover in the process please check out: intp2entp.wikispaces.com...

What is your name? Mark Where are you from? USA How old are you? 43 What's your gender? Male How did you find out that you were INTP, or other type? Tests How did you find out about this forum? Google Do you have a partner/lover? No Do you have any kids? No Do you have any pets? No Which hobbies...