Intuition description

Intuition

Intuition as a dimension of information deals with information that is abstract, subjective, and not physically present. Fundamentally, the building blocks of intuition are concepts and conceptual associations. What is meant by conceptual associations is something along the lines of properties that can be abstracted from a physical stimulus or a tangible situation. For example, consider a normal chair. There are many different types of chairs, which all look substantially different and have different physical properties, as well as tangible properties, such as cost, function, sentimental value. However, all of them have essentially the same feature that they are a chair; these range of highly distinct objects share the feature that one can sit on them. If someone tells you that they sat on a chair, you may develop a generic mental image of a simple object with legs, a flat surface, and a back surface. Your mental image probably is rather generic and does not contain excess unspecified features (for example, you are unlikely to immediately picture a swivel chair with wheels). What you are likely to have pictured probably meets your abstract knowledge of the properties of a chair and little else; namely, you can sit on it. This property, thus, is what constitutes the fundamental concept of what a chair is. It is concepts of this type, abstractions of physical properties or of other concepts, that constitute the intuitive mindset. Concepts are fundamental to both introverted and extroverted flavors of intuition, as they are to all human beings. Where and begin to differ in their emphases is in the domain of conceptual associations, or concepts about concepts. It is an oversimplification to say that is concerned with concepts and with conceptual associations. Rather, it is the kind of emphasis that and bring to concepts that differentiates them. seeks to maximize its degree of conceptual branching, whereas is less inclined to create new conceptual branches.

Extroverted Intuition

The attitude of    is characterized by generating more concepts; more generally by expansive possibility. An expansive possibility is something new or interesting that could be done, perhaps with the intent of improving it. The attitude of paying attention to expansive possibilities is fundamentally open, and fundamentally worldly. There is an openness towards experiencing the variety of the world in order to expose oneself to the broadest range of possibilities, and the attention is directed towards how the world might be improved.

is commonly associated with possibilities, novelty, brainstorming, and situations of high potential interest level. dominant types can be effectively summed up as individuals, often highly distractible, that produce a voluminous amount of new and often crazy ideas, actively creating and developing new conceptual associations rather than revisiting old ones. dominants may or may not physically create or enact the projects that they ideate, often looking up instructions on the fly or not at all (preferring to experiment as much as possible). Often, their ideas end up unrealized. In addition, types often have a need for unrestricted freedom of activity, preferring not to be tied down to obligations or situational demands.

In creatives, the orientation of openness and generation of expansive possibilities is more subdued in favor of the aims of the base function. While openness and expansive possibility is still an important element of the lifestyle, focus, and values of these types, they can situationally become more closed off and passive depending on the situation, and they do not generally display the hyperactivity in lifestyle of dominants.

Introverted Intuition

The fundamental attitude of is characterized in contrast, by generating few concepts; by limiting possibility. If expansive possibility is something new or interesting that could be done to improve the surrounding world, limiting possibility is something that might be *not* done to improve the world -- for instance, since I feel poorly this morning, I might not go to work. As such, types are often careful thinkers. The attitude of limiting possibility is fundamentally closed and fundamentally nonworldly (i.e. disembodied). Whereas types are open to the new experiences in the world around them, in there is an overt resistance to the experiences that the world has to offer. Expanding on this resistance, types come to reject worldliness; instead, they disembody themselves from their worldly experience (which is seen as limited, mundane, unimportant) and mentalize about the supra-worldly, creating an imaginary separate world in their head and seeking out the universal meaning in their experience that is broader than the basic sensations they feel. For instance, meaning must come from understanding the nature of the universe, rather than from the magical experience of e.g. this delicious cheesecake.

is associated with memory, uncertainty, state of mind, understanding trends or ongoing processes, incommunicability of subjective mental images, and a state of inertia. Most of all, it is associated with meaning, and forward vision. If types are likely to branch out and explore all possible concepts to find something interesting, types are likely to replay the conceptual associations that they have already made in their head. They may mentally replay things that have happened from their past or especially focus on the importance of concepts in memory, especially those relating to their personal history. dominants, perhaps more than any other types, are those that are inclined to appear out of touch with the real world and commonly lost in thought. They are also very often lazy and externally unmotivated, and may not interact or accomplish very much without outside influence. dominants in analytical ways often have a tendency to convey doubt, communicate about the unknowability of the topic or to constantly generalize their ideas.

The relationship between and time is by far more confusing than it's worth, and its worth is furthermore very limited. Everything that does have to do with time can be explained by a focus on events in one's memory and history and in an attunement to trends or ongoing processes, as in the sense of dominance automatic tendency towards "instant replay."

In creatives, as with all creatives, the orientation is relatively more situational and subdued. In this case, it is limiting possibilities that are situationally subdued, leading to individuals that have the capacity to be very careful thinkers and visionaries in some situations, but also particularly driven and lacking in patience or singularity of focus at other times.