Notes & Random Discord Snippets

G. House
Do you have any ideas on why I don't relate to descriptions of Ni?

G. House
Still not quite sure what intuition is experientially.

Auburn
i see
quantitatively, it's the gab between two datapoints
the part here under "implied" cognitivetype.com/2016/01/25/abstract-concrete-perception-theory/


G. House
I think I've read that too. In order for me to understand it though, I think I'd need someone else to describe their experience of it to me.
yeah, I've read that link

Auburn
i see. hmm, well it's not as magical as people make it out to be. Deep mind neural networks can already handle certain types of intuition
the mysterious reputation that intuition has, is partly founded on ignorance, not because it necessarily has to be cryptic
i personally don't experience intuition too much in the amorphous way it's sometimes felt. (i.e. via aha-moments, and sudden realizations)
it can just be... very simple... association forming
have you ever seen Criminal Minds?

G. House
Maybe one episode

Auburn
any shows like it?

G. House
House?
Sherlock?

Auburn
sherlock comes close
or fbi/cia shows. but anyways.. when the agents are sitting around the round table, trying to solve a case and sharing each-other's information, and they all 'solve' it by piecing together the data... that's intuition

^ looking at this image and understanding that there's a second eye there that was just removed from the photo -- is intuition
the implied data, to fit the pattern
with intuition, you could reconstruct the missing elements of this picture via photoshop and the clone tool

G. House
Ok, I think I'm getting it. How do you experience intuition? Any examples?

Auburn
i do it a lot in visual reading, when it comes to comparing people's appearances/mannerisms on a general scale. i don't always dissect each sample via timestamps (i do when needed) but i get a general sense of how strongly two samples correlate to one another via a mental association
i then can confirm or deny this by watching them side-to-side on different video players
and watching the degree of similarity play itself out in real-time
but i made the association in a cognitive (intuitive) sense first, before checking with a side-by-side comparison. and i didn't have to do any signal tallying to get that initial association

G. House
That's very helpful. Any everyday examples?

Auburn
intuition is quicker than sensation, but also fuzzier

G. House
Right now I have intuition as a sense of dissimilarity or similarity

Auburn
yes, that's a very fair starting point for understanding it
"similarity" is what i often call "associations" in the language of the model
how many components of a pattern do two things share?
you could even think of intuition as a kind of threshold system in the mind, that is constantly comparing things to other things
if it goes above a certain threshold of similarity, the mind registers it and brings it into your awareness
how this "image processing" of similarities is done, is via a complex neural network -- it's very fast but also very organic. same way we're teaching A.I. to learn

G. House
Is it like the spectrum of = to =/=?

Auburn
right, it's a spectrum
the J processes are the cutoff points
which is why things like Ni are a gradient... measuring always degrees of parallels between things

G. House
So I just did Ni when I compared N to a spectrum

Auburn
that's also why Ni often has a notion that everything is in some strong or vague way, interlinked with everything else
lol yes