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I live alone... I prefer to be alone... I get energized by being alone. For projects, I sometimes envision working with other people, but then when I think about my role, I do pretty much everything. I'm a philosophical guy, a deep thinker, and a sci major. My social skills are lacking, which...

Is it just me or is it that INTPs here tend to pick videos with really weird screenshots?

The psychophysical harmony argued isn't based on just "matching" reality, as if somehow our brains correlated with reality to match inputs. The real peculiarity is that the experienced states are the same for everyone. That is, I feel pain for the same reasons someone else feels pain, and I feel...

Modern laws have morphed the idea of stealing. Stealing should - as it does for me - mean removing something from someone else's possession. The idea of "taking" in the digital world is illusory, since everything on the internet, including the page you are reading now, is a copy. Should A.I. be...

@Animekitty Each of us has 1) expectations for ourselves 2) expectations for our partner These two can be kept separate or they can become entangled and cross over, and for some (maybe not all) people drawn to trans, it is the latter. When a person feels they must become everything, they...

@Animekitty Both men and women contain attributes of both what is "masculine" and "feminine", and while both usually lean towards what is natural to their sex, the overall personality is based on focusing on what you like about one sex or the other. So you like being soft, so you become soft...

Gender dysphoria can be explained in two parts: 1) Personality types 2) Focus BTW, I'm not talking about biological differences, which determine sex. Changing sex doesn't solve the problem: Truth does. 1) Males tend to be XXTX types, so their subculture has those facets, and thus the alpha dog...

lol There's some different in character, but it varies by the artist, and it can take an eye to notice the differences. Usually one artist draws identical characters, which is certainly true for anime where there are like 1 maybe 2 MAYBE 3 character designers.

What a great comment to get a bunch of responses. I think some of the reason is that INTPs are very perceptive. INTPs in general are actually pretty balanced, so if you swing too hard in one direction, they will show you why you're wrong and - to extremists - they will look like extreme...

@Cognisant Are you surprised when culture starts following the natural course of its philosophy? Liberalism leads to lack of definition in culture. It demands the destruction of all that society is, its institutions, frameworks, history,... everything, and all for the sake of a "new" order that...

Nice to have a place to go where you know to test your ideas and get feedback, although I guess having a small crowd has its drawbacks... and probably deters people from joining a place "half abandoned". Most people like community, but INTPs aren't "most people".

I hope someone does research on the intelligence of octopi. They seem really clever, like squirrels, but whether this equates to the ability to communicate effectively, who knows. In answer to the OP: I would say different levels of intelligence do exist, but it's hard to say because we don't...

I like tardigrades. There's probably a ton of them nearby and I just don't know it. @higs - That furball is cute. Does it bark? Is it potty-trained? And can it hum the French national anthem?

I do this too, but...

I hate posting Wikipedia, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A tl;dr - There were several ways of writing A, but in Italy, the two common forms we have today evolved. The circle with a line on the side is the "italic" (used in writing), and the circle with the line over the top is the "Roman"...

lol - Hijack of Latin there by Jung. ("Anima" is Greek for the life-force of animals - nothing to do with personality, but the endings "a" and "us" are for feminine and masculine declensions (respectively) in Latin.) I wouldn't say males get their emotional side from females around them. I...

Merrily, good sir, merrily, if you will but avoid thine incredulity.

@redbaron - Yes, it has been quite some time... probably over a year or so since I was here last, but not too long, 'cause I hadn't yet forgotten my password. XD

Wow, this thread. I'll throw in my .02 before bed. I think this all boils down to man being man. It doesn't matter what system mankind establishes - be it religion, politics, or economics - it will always fail because even one selfish person in a crowd will spoil it for everyone else...

I think these can be answered. 1) Currently, humans only have the capability of creating machines that manipulate the physical word - protons, neutrons, electrons, and such particles. The motion of these things on their own is meaningless, which is evidence to me that qualia must supersede the...

From what I've read, professorships in the States are dried up, but I'm not sure if that's also true in Canada. My guess is that it would be just based on the continuation of the previous generations holding those jobs. In this job, it's also easy to lose touch with the latest happens in the...

I wouldn't say laziness is instinctual, but it is natural. We become tired, and our bodies say, "Stop working so you can recharge". But the less you work, the more accustomed your body becomes to not working, which means that any effort you exert causes your body to say "this is tiring". The...

I don't report drunk drivers... mostly because when I see them, I'm driving myself, and where I'm at, I can't use the phone and drive. I also see them in the most unideal spots for reporting, like on a highway. "Yes, officer, the suspect was not wearing a hat."

You're over-analyzing it, which tends to happen in your twenties as a male 'cause your brain is changing it's wiring. Don't worry about it. Trust. Don't judge by inference. If there is going to be betrayal, it should be obvious. And ask some one else who knows the guy of their opinion. Playing a...

Same old people rehashing the same old problems and offering the same old solutions and telling the same old jokes. There's something that transcends oldness here. Maybe just being with your own kind for a change instead of surrounded by strangers. The culture here goes without saying - no...

Belated welcome.

"Why are you here?"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

This isn't a which-is-better thread or only-read-this thread, but INTPs do have a general tendency to enjoy non-fiction over fiction. Let's stick with just making suggestions, please.

I use them twice as much as men and half as much as women.

Oh, that's interesting. I probably should've guessed that (there are stations), but as I haven't seen anyone, I wonder where they are hiding. Eheh eheh. Except that, what you don't see in the news: The Tesla vehicle batteries have to go somewhere. Batteries in general are very expensive but...

^ Goes to show sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. I'm glad you've been able to mellow out. Hopefully your psychological wounds will heal completely the longer time goes on.

^ I'd say neither were applicable. tbh, It's not like you have to be one type or another. Personality type seems to represent more how your brain feels comfortable working. If you're comfortable with people and being alone, you could be ambivert. As for IQ, I think that's something that can be...

If by "trans" we mean "transgender" and if by "transgender" we mean people with a body that appears to be more of the opposite sex than of the one their parts say they are, then I would think the issue is more complex than that. If there are 16 different personality types and 16 permutations of...

It usually doesn't bother me as long as it's not provocative, intentionally insulting, or promoting some idea that everyone knows defies common sense. Of course, whatever you have on your shirt might say something about you, but I won't judge you unless I think you are the kind of person who...

We could simply demonstrate social ineptitude by using this thread to show how we fail at communic... ... oh. Darn. Edit: I just looked at the test. I wouldn't pick any of those options. Where's answer "C" for "none of the above"? I'm fighting the rules of this quiz! Onward!

lol. I reject that. XD As this is a deductive reasoning test, I felt free to answer with the pattern-identification that pleased me best.

But if I do, it'll drive nuts some poor thinker several years from now who stumbles upon this thread in the Wayback Machine and wants to know the answer! Haven't you ever felt this way?? https://xkcd.com/979/

I AM A SHAMEFUL RULE BREAKER

I also recommend QED: The Strange Theory of Matter and Light. (book cover varies) There is a text book, but this isn't it. The textbook seems confusing, at least to me. The book I'm recommending is small (less than 200 pages) and is made up of the four lectures Feynman gave at a university...

I'm not looking for stats, I'm looking for your favorite topic. What do you like to study? And Why? Feel free to go into rambling detail (that includes rambling about the topic and/or about why you think the topic is interesting to you personally or interesting to humans in general).

In a perhaps shocking if not simply an odd way, complementary to Serac's recommendation... John Paul II's Theology of the Body. It's an enlightening insight into the human body and God's intentions for mankind to begin with. If you're curious as to why Catholicism is against homosexuality...

Generally speaking, other human beings are the last thing INTPs want to study. I say that tongue and cheek, though, since it's possible that INTPs are curious about human history. I am to some degree, but as I have such a broad spectrum of interests, it doesn't take high precedence. Sometimes...

The kind of music you listen to has an effect on your mind. For some people, listening to calming music has an effect. However, for INTPs, I think the best benefits are actually listening to what you body is in the mood for. If you are angry, listen to dissonance. If you are happy, listen to...

If you want poems, go see the feelers Fall on your knees laughing - they'll offer you kneelers Just don't ask them of the nuances of their work Their meanings hold reasons that will drive you berserk! I once met an old mathematician He said his poems were terrible, and I agreed But he added...

Woooow.... Way to make a thread busy, kalika. Must be very boring over there. I'll admit, I checked it out once and found it lacking activity, though that's not surprising for an INTP forum (it adds to the authenticity). But for whatever weird internal human need, I wanted a community. For the...

Future inventions? How about: Meteor shields Desert fruit (for Martian mission) Flying car/bus/train Hovercraft 3D Projection Techniques (holograms, military or medical projection mapping, etc) Quantum Encryption

I recall reading an article a long time ago about the possibility of launching microchips into space by having them propel themselves with the earth's magnetic field. They would, however, need to be boosted to the appropriate speed initially by means of a rocket. The biggest factor preventing...

What,what,what? No. Hang on. (Edit: I was targeting the OP and earlier responses. Sorry QuickTwist.) First of all, problems aren't caused by one single factor. There are a number of reasons. Second, we see ourselves as victims for a number of reasons, not just one. Consider, for example...

The thing about games is that you have to be in the mood to play them. If you overanalyze them like your normal, rational self does, you stop enjoying them because they are pointless time wasters. Some of the best games have stories. It's a rewarding, fulling experience for certain gamers. But...

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