One stimulus, a tree of possibility erupting from it — every branch forking again before the last has finished growing, and the brightest sparks escaping the chamber entirely.
Zone B · stack position
Click any position to see how the branching changes — from the effortless, omnidirectional bloom of a dominant to the demon's hostile what-ifs that fire only at what is loved. Watch the live-branch count: it tells the story before the caption does. Drag the maturity slider to watch the lower positions gain fidelity with age.
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With age, lower stack positions gain fidelity, duty cycle, and structural complexity.
Zone C · feeder coupling
Extraverted perception is fed by introverted judgment — and introverted perception by extraverted judgment. Ne is extraverted perception, so its real partners are the inner judges: Ti and Fi, the functions that decide which branches deserve to live. Click a feeder to watch what grows.
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Zone D · the divergence engine
Ne branches one stimulus into many possibilities, in public, at speed. This lab exposes the divergence engine's live state — stress, pleasure, breadth, open threads — and five ways a day can treat it. Trigger a scenario and watch the telemetry answer; sweep the chamber at any time to branch by hand.
Zone E · energy economics
Every invocation of Ne costs energy. The lower it sits in the stack, the more expensive it becomes. Note the small notches in the dominant curve: a fresh branch that takes pays a little back — smaller and more frequent than Ni's rare deep insights. Note also which way the grip runs here — a collapsed Ne-dominant does not get more Ne, it floods into inferior Si.
Zone F · field notes
Patterns from the wild — how Ne shows up in daily life.
Ten minutes into the meeting the board holds eleven directions, four of them good, and the Ne-dominant who produced them is delighted with all eleven. Asked to pick one, their energy visibly halves — generating options and closing them are different operations, and only one of them is this function's job.
Under stress, ENFP Ne pairs with tertiary Te: both extraverted, both outward, with Fi's quiet question — does this actually matter to me? — cut out between them. The idea becomes a project with a name and a logo inside an hour, ships half-grown, and joins the shelf by week three, because the function that would have vetoed it was never consulted.
An ENTP past the end of their reserves stops generating and floods into inferior Si — suddenly cataloguing old mistakes in forensic detail, auditing every bodily signal, eating the same comfort food in front of a show they have seen nine times. Not a personality change: a low-capacity chamber taking a dominant-sized flood.
Same element, opposite attitude — the funnel reversed. Ne takes one input and fans it outward into many futures, all live at once, all cheap to hold, none of them chosen — range purchased with commitment. Ni runs the same violet the other way: many inputs funneled into one future that arrives whole, certain, and unable to show its work. One engine bets on breadth and pays in open threads; the other bets on depth and pays in revision. Visit the other end of the funnel →