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]

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.

You know, that's something interesting worth looking up. I want to say Chinese considers females more inclined to intuition too if yin-yang is any indication. Yin involves what is hidden and unseen and Yin is also typically considered feminine/female. On the other hand, Yang involves what manifests and what is actually seen and Yang is typically considered masculine/male. On the other hand, from my limited studies, there seem to be a lot of records of Native American men having dreams/premonitions/etc. Very interesting.