You know, I just can't help but notice the parallels of how
is describes in several segments here and descriptions in my "how I view reality" thread.
Originally Posted by
dreikin
Notice in the last two parts how the recognition of the pattern is a perception, and unlike S, it has no (immediately) identifiable source, so it's an intuition. Further, unlike the Ne part of coming up with possibilities, it doesn't need to be checked (other than just a very quick verification, but..) – you know that's what it is
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you know that's what it is" - or in other words you've seen it, you've seen the answer, even if you, for some strange reason, like for instance somebody asking you a question at that very moment, forget the answer, lose your train of thought, that sense of "I've seen it" is still there.
Here it is explained through my methaphore of shapes. As I've stated shapes can be anything. There also exist mathematical-logical shapes.
They exist in a special form, they exist in a "web" of cause and consequence in a "forest" of logic: They are the intersection in the web.
Anyway, navigating in this web is complicated. Each point has a fixed number of paths to other points. You can travel to each point while in Ni mode, imagine that you are floating in space and there is this giant 3D web around you. But the purpose of the exercise is to discover connection in the web. So you try to do that.
A mathematical (logical) problem is when you are given two point in this web and you try to connect them. So you float around, look to which points a point is connected, can that path take you there, you look closely, what about that one, nope, there's got to be a way here somewhere *scratch head* and then it happens. In the corner of your eye, you though you saw a path that connects them, turn, look and there it is, *the path* that connects the two dots. In that very instant the path lights up, as if it is burning as you are traveling on it and a new shape is formed with a beginning in one point and and ending in another, "a flash of insight"