A Person Without Sensorics and a Person Without Intuition

Danidin writes on the socioforum:

“A person without sensorics is when the internal psychic reality and its images completely overshadow any sensory information and the 'common sense' based on it, so that the latter are ignored. For example, when a person imagines that they can fly and jumps out of a window. Or, less extremely, when they perceive their fantasies as real events happening to them.

A person without intuition, on the contrary, sees nothing except the physical reality around them, as given in bodily sensations. If they can't see, hear, or—better yet—smell, touch, or taste something, they believe it doesn't exist. This always implies skepticism towards anything related to probabilities, to all abstract concepts (especially unfamiliar ones without a “stamp of approval”), distrust of any guesses, speculative constructions, and intellectual initiative (“these people just make things up and lie”), rejection of creativity “not according to the canon” and all experimenters; lack of interest in the fantastic and fantasy genres in art; this also almost always results in avoidance of any minimally risky endeavors and extreme conservatism in life (“our grandfathers lived this way and told us to do the same”).

Due to the correlation of different traits, the type closest to a person without sensorics is intermediate between ILE and IEI, while the one closest to a person without intuition is between LSE and ESI.”

Let us continue Danidin’s thought by conducting a small study using V.L. Talanov’s socionic statistics:

A PERSON WITHOUT SENSORICS (TYPE INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN ILE AND IEI)

List of generalized personality traits most strongly correlated with this type profile:

  1. No inclination toward unambiguous "quantized" certainty in everything, are a master of probabilistic reasoning, and perfectly understand (being naturally predisposed to it) the logic of fuzzy sets and the dialectics of the unity of opposites. Therefore, neither multivariance nor the combination of the contradictory in one model repels them.
  2. May have problems with precise spatial orientation—difficulty instantly recalling and understanding where they are (at home, at work, or elsewhere).
  3. Deeply alien to ordinariness, traditionalism, and mundane standardness in thoughts and lifestyle - strives for uniqueness and originality in everything, even to the point of shocking others, and “being like everyone else” is unpleasant and burdensome to them.
  4. Unpractical and unable to care for themselves (including basic life needs).
  5. Loves paradoxes, enjoys mentally combining the incompatible for the sake of experimentation.
  6. Guesses and speculative conclusions are often more important and significant than direct visualization.
  7. Often "drifts away" into thoughts or fantasies, disconnected from sensory perception of reality—at such moments, their behavior may appear to be "on autopilot".
  8. Actively uses imagination as a magnifier to color certain traits and emphasize their uniqueness.
  9. Small amount of and reduced concentration of attention (especially visual). Weak observation.
  10. Guesses and imagination are often more important than even visuals.
  11. Increased chance of experiencing illusions of novelty—supposedly never seen before (an illusion opposite to dĂ©jĂ  vu).
  12. Episodes of visual or olfactory delusions, illusions, obsessions, and hallucinations may occur. The information pathway from senses to consciousness is often noisy and error-prone.
  13. No preference for whole numbers over irrational ones, clear boundaries over fuzzy sets, definiteness over probability, discrete quanta over continuity, or fewer options over more. Not averse to smooth transitions, continuity, vague fuzzy sets, or waves smeared across space instead of quanta.
  14. Very strong imagination and fantasy.
  15. Unpractical in domestic life and generally indifferent to whether their home and household are “well-stocked”.
  16. High tendency toward obsessive fantasizing, aimless mental wandering in dreams and unrealistic fantasies, into which they retreat to escape reality.
  17. Highly prone to theorizing and philosophizing.
  18. Constant presence of some perceptible “foggy images” near consciousness, which do not interfere with but somewhat guide conscious thought.
  19. Predisposed to balance and posture instability (vestibular system weakness).
  20. Weak current visual-spatial attention. Only a small amount of visual information is directly perceived from the environment; the rest of the perceived visual “picture” is filled in by subconscious automatic memory, making visual perception low in detail and prone to errors.
  21. Increased likelihood of habit of automatically fiddling with objects during thinking (e.g., picking cuticles, rolling breadcrumbs, twirling a lighter or pencil). The point here is in the hyperexcitation of the finger and adjacent speech areas of the cerebral cortex inherent in this psychotype.
  22. Small amount of short-term visual memory (poor at recalling image details or object positions on a table—once turned away, can’t describe what was seen).
  23. Loves all things mysterious and enigmatic.
  24. Characterized by everyday impracticality and dislike of domestic chores, no interest in housekeeping or maintaining order in the house.
  25. Statistically prone to depersonalization symptoms—feelings of losing one's "self", split identity, alienation or unrecognizability of their own personality.
  26. Heightened interest in philosophy and abstract concepts.
  27. Episodes of physical depersonalization may occur (temporary sense of "losing" limbs, loss of body integrity).
  28. Weakening and periodic absence of desires and motivations, leading to boredom, apathy, stupor. Sometimes it's hard for them to understand or articulate why they live, what they want, or what their goals are.
  29. Often escapes the present moment into fantasies about different time periods of their past or future life.
  30. Characterized by a constant wide mental associative search "fan" from the starting point (chaotic, without a temporal unfolding into a coherent sequence), ending in a pleasant momentary feeling of "discovery".
  31. Extremely intense thinking (almost always have some thought in their head).
  32. Their frequent "background" thoughts are highly scattered, detached from reality, and mainly consist of elusive, chaotic, fragmentary mental wanderings through vague, distant associations (as in a dream, but even less clear).
  33. Less concerned with the neatness of their appearance than others.
  34. Interested in knowledge or ideas regardless of practical use. Rarely thinks about practical application.
  35. More curious and inquisitive than others. Attracted to the unexpected, unique, special, ability to enjoy and experience anticipatory inspiration from any noticed originality, surprise and unusualness.
  36. Weak protective instincts toward "their own" and family. Little interest in relatives. No strong need to protect or support "their blood".
  37. Sloppy with belongings, prone to leaving things scattered, often forgets where things were put.
  38. Motor awkwardness and weak coordination.
  39. Increased likelihood of disorientation regarding date, month, and day of the week.
  40. Tendency to “wander off mentally” while thinking.
  41. Weak visual sensitivity, memory, and attention—doesn’t notice an object lying in plain sight.
  42. Possesses self-irony, tolerant of jokes about serious matters, including themselves. Sometimes jokes about themselves in company.
  43. Likely enjoys the activities of a writer, literary critic, librarian, philologist, screenwriter.

A PERSON WITHOUT INTUITION (TYPE INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN ESI AND LSE)

List of generalized personality traits most strongly correlated with this type profile:

  1. What do people of this type usually pride themselves on (and not without reason)? That their household is cleaner and more organized than others’, that their dacha garden is more effective, their kids' schools and kindergartens are better chosen, and they’re better at maintaining their health and regular, effective household order.
  2. Suffers from excessively obsessive perfectionism in maintaining external order.
  3. Ordinary, traditional, and standard in thoughts and lifestyle—nothing unusual or shocking, a bourgeois in the good sense, strives to follow the "golden mean", to be "like everyone else".
  4. Characterized by domestic practicality, love of housework, interest in housekeeping and in keeping the house in order (up to “obsession” with order).
  5. Strong protective instincts toward "their own", their family clan. Also upholds the dominance of group values over individual ones.
  6. Dislikes paradoxes, even mentally combining the incompatible is irritating (“if it’s unusual, it’s impossible, and I’m not interested in the impossible—those who are are annoying fools”).
  7. Prefers whole numbers over irrational ones, clear boundaries over fuzzy sets, unambiguity over probability, discrete quanta over continuity, fewer choices over many.
  8. Pays more attention than others to personal neatness.
  9. Inclined toward clear certainty, intolerant of probabilistic reasoning, doesn’t understand fuzzy logic or dialectics of opposites. Tends to ignore or discard facts that don’t fit the initial concept.
  10. Doesn’t tolerate jokes about serious matters, especially about themselves—even innocent jokes are taken badly.
  11. Doesn’t use imagination to amplify or highlight uniqueness of traits.
  12. Doesn’t engage in broad associative mental searches from an initial point—such thinking is blocked.
  13. High practicality and pragmatism are core traits.
  14. Visual clarity always outweighs any guesses - more likely to believe what’s directly seen.
  15. Has large short-term visual memory (can accurately recall image details or object placement).
  16. Has precise orientation in space.
  17. Likely indifferent to riddles and mysteries. They do not attract and excite them with a sweet calling premonition - most likely, they don’t even understand what this feeling is. Therefore, is indifferent to adventure and fantasy books filled with riddles and mysteries.
  18. Clings to old and traditional values, dislikes innovation and innovators, moreover, they themselves also do not have the gift to invent something and come up with something new.
  19. Handwriting is likely neat, even, and legible (no signs of messiness).
  20. Almost always tracks surroundings with sharp sensory attention, almost never “falling” completely out of that observation into an internal focused thought process.
  21. Very weak imagination.
  22. Rarely does anything unexpected that contradicts the logic of the situation—never does so intentionally.
  23. Not curious or inquisitive about new things.
  24. Always values visual clarity over guesses or imagination.
  25. Has almost no tendency toward theorizing or philosophizing.
  26. Strong, focused attention (especially visual), excellent observation.
  27. Views incompleteness, instability, asymmetry, and disorder as unpleasantly unaesthetic. Best in stable conditions, discouraged by rapid change and chaos.
  28. Extremely realistic, no inclination (or even ability) for dreamy mental wandering.
  29. Regulation of everything in the world and prohibitionism as a life strategy—limiting others’ freedoms with strict rules, then taking pleasure in maintaining the controlled environment. Believes the more societal bans, the better. Sometimes thinks everything not explicitly allowed should be forbidden.
  30. No disturbances in sensory modalities. Never experiences visual or olfactory illusions, obsessions, or hallucinations.
  31. Sharp visual-spatial attention, processes large amounts of sensory information in real time.
  32. Supporter of maximum regulation of any allowed manifestations in society, with regulation of everything and everything, and prohibition of any unauthorized activity.
  33. Never experiences “foggy images” hovering near consciousness and guiding thought.
  34. Excellent sense of balance and posture stability.
  35. Dislikes the unexpected, unique, or original. Unattracted to bright and sudden ideas.
  36. Strong adherent of conservative (traditional) values, seeking role models in the past, not future.
  37. No “big ideas” or even many small personal ideas. A conservative who prefers to ignore unnecessary knowledge.

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