Quote Originally Posted by MysticSonic View Post
You use Ne too, you just don't care about it nor use it actively.

The way I've come to view Ne and Ni, in the simplest workable way I can conceive them, is that Ne is concerned with understanding new aspects of abstract matters, whereas Ni is concerned with enhancing their already established abstract ideas and connections. That isn't to say that Ne jumps from one thing to the other, nor that Ni stays completely settled upon one concept and revamps it repeatedly without end. However, Ne is necessary in order to explore these new concepts and connections between previously established ideas about matters, and Ni is necessary in order to develop extensive working ideas about ideas in order to recognize any new connections between ideas.

Sort of why I think Ne is viewed as "creative" while Ni is viewed as "imaginative." I think therein lies the distinction.

But they are completely necessary for each other.
When I first learn typology, I used to type people only by Abstract(intuitive) or Concrete(Sensing). people who have NI in their ego block will have strong Ne in their ID, and vice versa. One thing for sure is that both Ne, and NI are the work of the mind creativity hence, why I think that meyer briggs used (N)(S) to differentiate NE/NI and SE/SI and not all four Information element. Therefore to not make people confused.