This is a good article. I will read it ASAP.

Anyways, function dominance has always seemed like a bad, misguided idea to me. My bullshitty theory of CF (cognitive functions) is more like people have a set of "commands," like code in their heads. These commands correlate to certain intuitions in the brain towards certain behaviors/thinking patterns/feeling patterns, based on whatever thought patterns/behaviors produced the greatest pleasure.

Over time, certain algorithms develop. One of them we might call "INTP" where thinking and intuition had become rewarding for social or preset biological preferences. As a result, we created a pleasure-command feedback cycle where these thinking patterns held in place.

But that doesn't mean we can't change these algorithms in our heads, it just means that it's difficult for us to do so.

I'd like to point to the INTJ, for instance. My INTJ brother pushed me into thinking more about how human nature and the way that people think and the way that they do things. He was very naturally attuned to the way that people and things were in terms of subjective perception and he ways the one who first suggested to me that type-logic may seem legit but is actually bullshit. It seemed to him what people called "Ni" was simply the expression of being a gifted learner who didn't try very hard to learn things get could still pickup certain ideas and be very philosophical and big-picture. And where "Te" was just his habit in his youth of constantly have to explain his unique "big-picture ideas" aloud.

Over time, I think he had gotten used to thinking aloud and preferred to think in that particular way. He was very devisive between how he intuited and how he connected with other people.

I think I was a little different. When I was younger, I was always very shy and I preferred to stay at home instead of going to school because I didn't have many friends and I was always afraid people calling me nerdy, fat, or awkward. I was always glossing over certain topics/skills that I would put down in a few weeks. My dad used to call me "The Three-Weaker" for obvious reasons. Over time, maybe this desire to learn things became more convergent and developed into some kind of "introverted thinking" as I got more and more frustrated with my own superficial understanding of the world.

But even all of this is only a built-in narrative description of who I was and what he (INTJ) with was really-like. He grew less serious and ambitious over time was, for a while, a total INFP who was very emotionally sensitive and caring of other people. It was a really weird shift in his personality. And at other times, he came off kind of INFJ-ish, declaring moral judgments in place of Te-style debate.

I kind of changed too. For a while, I played basketball and I was on the women's basketball team at my high school. During this time, I probably came off very ISTP.

But as private and social situations changed and I missed my freshman year of college with health issues, I became much more ISTJ and anxiously aware of my future and what kind of things I needed to do to preserve my own freedom and independence.

And now here I am, feeling very much INTP or whatever it is that I am feeling when I describe myself as "INTP".

So I feel pretty strongly that as social situations and brain chemistry and transformative experience occur that people change and can permanently change. Or maybe they can't. Who knows.