I've been researching a lot about the different functions, and despite learning a lot, I still can't seem to recognize them in myself. It's possible that I'm trying to trick myself into believing I'm a certain type, or that I'm not a certain type. I'll try and give various examples and if the knowledgeable people of this community could attribute them to functions, then that would be very helpful.
First of all I'm wondering what kind of function could contribute to the writings in this spoiler tag. Maybe Ni/Se?
I wrote this one day when I felt playful and indulgent.
I later added a bunch of stuff to it throughout the day.
The troubling thing is that I can't give scenarios of any serious problems. I enjoy detective shows/games and trying to figure out the crime before the detectives do (Case Closed/Phoenix Wright/Sherlock Holmes). I'd like to eventually enhance my deduction skills until I can easily come to seemingly hidden answers in real life. I can't say that I excel at that yet..
What functions usually come into play in the mechanical talent aspect of musical instruments? I find that I can play fast and fluid, but most of the actual music is coming from my memory (sounds that have sounded good in the past, memory of the numbers and positions of songs I've learned in the past)
I find that occasionally I get dark thoughts and tend to feel narcissistic and sociopathic. I've thought about getting revenge on people by psychologically damaging them with drugs that allow for high suggestibility. As unrealistic as it sounds I've fantasized about having nanobot flies that dig into the victim and take control of their brains in order to take down the powerful corrupt..I tend to immaturely indulge in thoughts like these whether they're dark or not. I don't know when or why I feel misanthropic at those times. Other times I'd rather just be away from people, not feeling ill or well towards them other than those who I value. Anyways I thought that maybe this points to a function I'm not specifically good at handling?
I come up with a lot of theories that don't depend on facts at all. I don't believe these theories, and I'm not devoted to them, but I find them to be exciting. I think about the world being a computer program and we're just AI. All laws and functions of our universe were set prior to its execution. What would it be like if reality were to glitch and let its true nature be known. I drew two simple bad drawings based on this idea:
Or I wonder if it would be possible for us to represent the human brain in an AI if we were to increase our knowledge of the human mind. Of course if you consider AI in games such as Half Life or Unreal, the enemies don't actually have senses rather than something that "alerts" them if the player is in range. But if we made something much more advance such as making an algorithm that simulates scanning of an environment while referencing various stored information such as the personality and the AI's "knowledge database" we could bring AI closer to being identical to humans. I don't buy the ideas that AI we have that just repeat phrases that humans have said to it are 54% human or whatever they want to say. I'd say they're something more along the lines of 0.0001% human. I think we'd have to break everything such as the brain and its reactions to chemicals down to mathematical equations, which I like to believe is possible that we can give a program the illusion of an experience.
I think of things like what if instead of living on a linear timeline we may live on a tree timeline that's always splitting. It's not logical to believe that but I like to explore the idea of it. Or maybe we live on a point in time and our prior memories of experience were injected into us and our experience of living a sequence of events is just an illusion.
Or some bizzare theories like cats are psychic creatures that struggle controlling their slaves (us).
I was also wondering if any functions were detectable from how I interact with others. I'm childishly tactful and kind towards people I'm familiar with. Although when I open up to them and obtain advice from others, the next day I usually close up and try to forget it and act hard shelled. When their friends that I don't know show up I'll at first close up and try to interact as little as possible besides the greeting and question answering. I'll occasionally try and open up slightly but it will come off as unnatural and I'll start analyzing what I said and what they said. When the conversation turned to THEIR bizarre theories I found it easier to tune in, although I found it troubling that they could present their theories as fact as to that's what's happening. They said concretely that we were put on earth by aliens to harvest gold. It's not really my kind of idea, but it's interesting nonetheless. The same guy also said that everything you don't see doesn't exist. I forget the name for this specific breed of philosophy, but I find it close minded to think of that as true rather than a possibility. I think the only thing you can prove for certain is that there is an experience (Descartes) and the rest is up to belief. Another one of my friends had a more respectable view in which he stated that he has a bunch of beliefs that he holds as potentially true, but not for certain, and plenty of them contradict each other.
If you had the patience to read through that, then thank you, and I'm surprised. Does anybody notice any patterns or functions that stand out?
First of all I'm wondering what kind of function could contribute to the writings in this spoiler tag. Maybe Ni/Se?
I wrote this one day when I felt playful and indulgent.
I later added a bunch of stuff to it throughout the day.
The troubling thing is that I can't give scenarios of any serious problems. I enjoy detective shows/games and trying to figure out the crime before the detectives do (Case Closed/Phoenix Wright/Sherlock Holmes). I'd like to eventually enhance my deduction skills until I can easily come to seemingly hidden answers in real life. I can't say that I excel at that yet..
What functions usually come into play in the mechanical talent aspect of musical instruments? I find that I can play fast and fluid, but most of the actual music is coming from my memory (sounds that have sounded good in the past, memory of the numbers and positions of songs I've learned in the past)
I find that occasionally I get dark thoughts and tend to feel narcissistic and sociopathic. I've thought about getting revenge on people by psychologically damaging them with drugs that allow for high suggestibility. As unrealistic as it sounds I've fantasized about having nanobot flies that dig into the victim and take control of their brains in order to take down the powerful corrupt..I tend to immaturely indulge in thoughts like these whether they're dark or not. I don't know when or why I feel misanthropic at those times. Other times I'd rather just be away from people, not feeling ill or well towards them other than those who I value. Anyways I thought that maybe this points to a function I'm not specifically good at handling?
I come up with a lot of theories that don't depend on facts at all. I don't believe these theories, and I'm not devoted to them, but I find them to be exciting. I think about the world being a computer program and we're just AI. All laws and functions of our universe were set prior to its execution. What would it be like if reality were to glitch and let its true nature be known. I drew two simple bad drawings based on this idea:
Or I wonder if it would be possible for us to represent the human brain in an AI if we were to increase our knowledge of the human mind. Of course if you consider AI in games such as Half Life or Unreal, the enemies don't actually have senses rather than something that "alerts" them if the player is in range. But if we made something much more advance such as making an algorithm that simulates scanning of an environment while referencing various stored information such as the personality and the AI's "knowledge database" we could bring AI closer to being identical to humans. I don't buy the ideas that AI we have that just repeat phrases that humans have said to it are 54% human or whatever they want to say. I'd say they're something more along the lines of 0.0001% human. I think we'd have to break everything such as the brain and its reactions to chemicals down to mathematical equations, which I like to believe is possible that we can give a program the illusion of an experience.
I think of things like what if instead of living on a linear timeline we may live on a tree timeline that's always splitting. It's not logical to believe that but I like to explore the idea of it. Or maybe we live on a point in time and our prior memories of experience were injected into us and our experience of living a sequence of events is just an illusion.
Or some bizzare theories like cats are psychic creatures that struggle controlling their slaves (us).
I was also wondering if any functions were detectable from how I interact with others. I'm childishly tactful and kind towards people I'm familiar with. Although when I open up to them and obtain advice from others, the next day I usually close up and try to forget it and act hard shelled. When their friends that I don't know show up I'll at first close up and try to interact as little as possible besides the greeting and question answering. I'll occasionally try and open up slightly but it will come off as unnatural and I'll start analyzing what I said and what they said. When the conversation turned to THEIR bizarre theories I found it easier to tune in, although I found it troubling that they could present their theories as fact as to that's what's happening. They said concretely that we were put on earth by aliens to harvest gold. It's not really my kind of idea, but it's interesting nonetheless. The same guy also said that everything you don't see doesn't exist. I forget the name for this specific breed of philosophy, but I find it close minded to think of that as true rather than a possibility. I think the only thing you can prove for certain is that there is an experience (Descartes) and the rest is up to belief. Another one of my friends had a more respectable view in which he stated that he has a bunch of beliefs that he holds as potentially true, but not for certain, and plenty of them contradict each other.
If you had the patience to read through that, then thank you, and I'm surprised. Does anybody notice any patterns or functions that stand out?
