Intuition and Sensing, Left and Right Brain (dichotomies I hate)

[chacusha]

So I am (slowly) working on a MBTI-related thing for my Disney post series and so am reminded once again how much I dislike the sensing vs. intuition dichotomy, so here's a rant about it. (This post is public because I'll probably be linking it when I actually post my Disney MBTI thing.)

Comments

[princessatta]

Oh wow I cannot even begin to say all the things I want to about this since I'm on my phone and have little patience with the touchy touchpad.

I am an ENFP most of the time, but I think the very fact that I can take the test at any point and possibly get a different classification speaks to its fallacy. After all, humans are more complex than a test or classification could ever do justice to.

That said, I do understand personally what it means to be intuitive. For example, a few semesters ago I woke up one morning to get ready for my a.m English class. I had the sudden inclination to check my student email, did so and found an email that the professor had sent not too long beforehand saying we would not be having class. Now, during that point of my student career I did not regularly check my student email let alone early in the morning. I also had no reason for being on the safe side since I had never before had a professor give less than a 24-48 hour warning of no class. Thus, I learned strictly through intuition the lesson of

[chacusha]

I am an ENFP most of the time, but I think the very fact that I can take the test at any point and possibly get a different classification speaks to its fallacy. After all, humans are more complex than a test or classification could ever do justice to.Very true

[princessatta]

Ahhhh, I see what you're saying. I don't think I quite got what you meant. While I do fall under most of the MBTI description of intuition (I definitely do work backwards, deduct rapidly, prefer the big picture, tend to be theoretical, unconventional, etc.) I can see where that doesn't really scream "intuition" in the sense of what I was describing and what we all typically believe it to be. Interesting. Maybe they should use a different word for it then? Or maybe they were using an archaic definition of the word intuition? Maybe they meant to imply that the ability to base learning on theory and experiences based on things "yet to be" (with the big picture, working backward thing) is similar to the way a person uses intuition or how a person somehow sees the future and then uses the future to affect their present? Still, that's not an obvious connection or even the best connection and I'm certain there's a better way to classify what they mean with both S and N

Where would M. C. Escher fit in?

[ext_3855003]

What about those like M, C. Escher who created art work with math?

I am both logical and creative. I am good in math, and im also a pretty good artist as well. I'm a computer programmer, and a graphic artist. I was a tattoo artist for many years as well. Im both theoretical amd hand on.. Im drawn to anything scientific and techwise, yet I also love art and philosophy too.

On MBTI tests i score as an INTP. I dont believe this lateralization information, here is current or up to date. I dont belive its possible to do or think without using both hemispheres in the thought or action together.