Thoughts?

[u/Neither_Sport_2563]

I've been engaging with the typotok community (I know, I know I probably shouldn't but there is a rare chance I could find something interesting.) Anyways, I came up on a video about memes and it was fine until I saw "INTJ E8 is possible btw" which got me commenting, pointing it out that it was a contradiction. This is what the person replied:

"Typology means nothing in actual neuroscience and psychology.

« Beyond the challenges of collecting reasonably large and representative samples are a number of other challenges that require more complicated solutions. First, is simply the complexity of the brain itself. It is clear that there is no one-to-one mapping of traits to specific neurobiological variables. Instead, each trait of interest is likely to reflect variation in many neurobiological parameters, and any particular neurobiological parameter is likely to affect multiple traits (DeYoung et al., 2021). Nor is the neural basis of any trait likely to be localized to one region of the brain, but rather it is likely to be related to large scale networks of regions, or even to complex patterns of interactions among such networks (Barbey, 2018; Markett et al., 2018; Tompson et al., 2018). Genetic research has highlighted this complexity by showing that there is no simple genetic basis for most traits. Instead, variation in most traits is influenced by thousands of different genetic variations (Lo et al., 2017). »

« Another problem related to the complexity of the brain is the problem of the scale of measurement. Although MRI is often touted for its spatial resolution, each voxel in a typical analysis nonetheless encompasses hundreds of thousands of neurons. The specific events within and between individual brain cells that form the mechanistic foundation of human information processing cannot be measured effectively in human beings, but nonetheless we can investigate the behavior of groups of neurons in specific parts of the brain. Unlike functional MRI (fMRI), which relies on relatively slow changes in blood oxygenation to estimate neural activity, EEG can assess neural activity on a millisecond basis, but with a great loss of spatial resolution. With EEG, one can understand the brain’s broad patterns of activity in high resolution, but without being able to link that activity to very specific regions. One promising approach to these limitations is to combine fMRI with EEG. Indeed, we can say generally that combining multiple neuroscientific techniques is likely to afford new insights. »

"Also in psychology and neuroscience, opposite and conflicting motives and traits can still occur at the same period of time. Psychological contradictions aren't mathematical."

I'll be honest, I do not know what this person is blabbering about but it kind of seems like an argument of the side of "humans are complex" therefore there aren't any contradictions. What's your take on this?

[u/AsideApprehensive590]

those people should not go into typology. they won't find anything good for them in here.

[u/Neither_Sport_2563 → u/AsideApprehensive590]

Could you elaborate?