Originally Posted by
Bertrand
I think its something like the initial question was about visualizing in time, which is more Ni in the sense of experiencing (not as a projection onto a screen in your head but as more of a feeling) the transformations in time, but the actual "visualization" is a Si thing. I think when Ni people "see" transformations in time its not some kind of visual impression yet, its more like a unique sense of trajectory, but if they concentrate they can produce an image or diagram out of it [1]. I think types will go through this process in different orders with accents on different stages. Like I think for some the visualization will arise first and then they'll focus on the trajectory and transformations and for others they'll have a strong hunch about things and then have to focus on reducing it to a more static form, etc. I think both forms of introverted perception are interwoven more closely than people realize. I think there's a kind of mystique over both functions and an implied hard separation but the more I think about the more I think they run together. A good example of this is someone like Nietzsche who I think in his writing uses a ton of both Si and Ni. I actually think drawing on them both is a source of creative inspiration, because its like how lots of people get hunches and so forth but few people can really strategize or build policy in a way that accounts for tons of factors in time and then convey that in a understandable format etc (i.e.: make it static)
[1] I also think this is bound up with Ne, when you make something static its more of a Ne thing, so when you "feel" and by this I mean sense in the Si sense a hunch, like a feeling in your gut or a buzzing in your head, it may be the Ni through the lens of Si in some sense (like danger sense or some such--again interwoven) but when you can reduce it to an image theres a Si representation but also an element of Ne staticization. I think in the final analysis visualizing time and especially conveying it a complex process. and further it depends a lot on what people have in mind when they use the term visualization since I think TIMs experience time and visualization a little differently to begin with, hence there's this interplay of subjective factors and meanings in asking and answering the question