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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Mental Functions Table

Mental Functions Table


Below are the eight mental functions in one table, comparing their Extraverted and Introverted versions in two columns.
The top two sets are those of Perception (S and N), and the bottom two sets are those of Judgment (T and F). And there's a bonus set at the bottom.




Extraverted (E) Introverted (I)
forwardbackward
activereflective
superficialdeep
expend energyconserve energy
externalinternal
talk to thinkthink to talk
publicprivate
speakingwriting
samedifferent
Perception (Pe)
Perception (Pi)
State of beingRecalled/imagined state of being


Sensing (Se)
Sensing (Si)
present, and next and nextpresent to past
simultaneoussequential
actual, factual, present and realpast, history, 'always been' and impression
realisticcaricature
tactile and sensoryvisceral
terrainmap
Intuition (Ne)
Intuition (Ni)
present to futureeternity, past and future, unpresent
patterns betweenmetaphors within
possibilitiescould have beens, once upon a time


Judgment (Je)
Judgment (Ji)
cause-and-effectanalytic
compromisedfundamental
ruleprinciple
activereactive
ruleexception

system
groupsort/rank
executivelegislative
Thinking (Te)
Thinking (Ti)
if...then...else ...else
compromisedfundamental
standardunique
notationdenotation
Feeling (Fe)
Feeling (Fi)
custom/traditionfree will
communityindividual
social moressocial liberties
harmonysolo
groupself
stereotypearchetype
sympatheticempathetic
clarificiationconnotation
Server (e)
Client (i)
synchronousasynchronous
client/serverpeer-to-peer
server computinggrid computing
rsshttp
ftpbittorrent/bittyrant
IRCIM
AIM/Yahoo/etc IMSolipsis
pushpull


If you'll note the color choices for the function headers, they're from the traditional colors first assigned by Jung. There's strong evidence that Jung was slightly synesthetic (as are many of his particular Type), so he labeled Sensing as green, iNtuition as yellow, Thinking as blue and Feeling as red. I assigned Purple to generalized Judgment (red/blue) and a yellow/green color for generalized Perception. I'm going to change the shades slightly, making the E versions slightly darker and the I versions slightly lighter, giving E 75% grey and introverted only 25% grey. Since orange was the only color not used in his system, I've reserved it for computers and the Internet.
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