#preconceptual

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[marywoodartdept]

Design Challenge

Ryan, our painting blogger, recently joined some online groups with fellow illustrators where they hold daily drawing challenges to challenge and grow members' skills. See examples of his prompts and resulting sketches #MarywoodArt #Painting #Illustration

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[sgcairo]

I’m amazed (and in love) with how u still hold onto dottore’s apathetic trait. Ik it’s obvious but I see a lot of people brushing it off, I personally dislike it..

Can you please speak about him and emotions more? So much light on pantalone pls don’t abandon the doctor😞 hehe. Not necessarily between babyttore and pantalone but also other things such as grief anger and love (also loneliness I’m curious)

Do u think someone before outed him about his (dottore’s) actions and how he doesn’t realize/care abt the consequences of them and how they affect others? If yes could u please explain dottore’s inner and outer reaction? Sorry im so Inlove with your characterization 😆

Honestly, I hate it when people brush off the fact that yes, he's an apathetic bastard. That's the whole point of his character, the risk of science without morals. And I like theorizing about it, because psychology is interesting and I'm a psychology nut.

I got you on the emotions bit. I kind of went over these in some of my previous answers to your asks, but it's time to deep dive, as it's my favorite thing to do other than write stupid fanfiction and read my books.

Here's the thing: Dottore is hard to characterize at times because I really can't relate to apathy, so it's a lot of speculation. He's just as crazy as they get, and I just have to let go of my own moral standpoints when thinking in his general perspective. No morals, just arson and destruction.

Dottore is a man of few emotions in general. And that's why he's so confused when Babytorre invokes some of these strange feelings within him. He's a wild card with how he feels, and honestly seems a bit scattered in terms of how his emotions present themselves. His anger is manifested in the destruction of the things he's worked so hard to create, his satisfaction is shown through lack of work on these projects, instead used as time to go bother others or take a moment to sit down and consider the outcomes.

But for things such as grief and love, he doesn't understand them. It's not that he doesn't feel them, he just can't recognize them when they happen. The first time he feels anything close to either, he thinks he's sick, as physical sensations equivalent to actual love are foreign to him. He's so detached from feeling them that he can't even tell what they are anymore, and that's where the whole "apathy" portion really strikes hard.

He just lacks the understanding and conceptualization of these feelings, which makes him detached from his victims. He does it because he believes in furthering his research, but also because he can't relate to the feelings that stem from having unpleasant experiences. He detached those feelings long ago, and now he can't exactly recover them easily, as he doesn't know them anymore.

Within childhood, there's a crucial stage of psychological development that's called "preconceptual morality". Basically, it's the idea that most of a child's actions are typically egocentric, or surrounding their own self interest. Dottore is the perfect example of a lack of development past this stage. He does only what benefits him. The definition of preconceptual morality also spreads to adults "under extreme pressure". So Dottore's own responsibilities ambitions and self imposed expectations may be a root cause of this, or simply his own lack of moral exemplifications.

He's quite literally a psychopath. I could throw all my above analysis away by just saying that his brain doesn't comprehend emotions, and his violent tendencies have stemmed from that in their own right.

But loneliness is an interesting emotion, as Dottore is unfamiliar with feeling lonely. He's always been a man that works alone, that much is clear. And by feeling lonely... It's not an emotion he's ever really felt or recognized as an actual ability.

From a psychological standpoint, we develop our ideas of emotions through our guardians/caretakers. They teach us what we're feeling and how to deal with that. Part of me wonders if Dottore just wasn't told no or that manifesting his feelings in such unproductive ways was bad. Either he has parent issues, or he just completely lacks the emotional awareness that most people have.

And yes, Pantalone in particular outed him about how he doesn't understand feelings, and that he's heartless. Basically chewed him out for being inconsiderate, especially towards Pantalone himself.

And let's just say that Dottore reacted poorly. I like to think that he doesn't yell, but he definitely has a warning tone, the "I'm dangerous and I could mutilate you if I pleased" type of tone. Pantalone is one of the few people below him that isn't terrified of it. Dottore wouldn't be visibly shaken, he's too good at keeping his physical displays of emotion in check.

But internally, I would think that Dottore wouldn't feel much of anything at all. In fact, he might even agree. But depending on the situation, it would also make the tiniest crack in his chest, for all the unpleasant feelings to leak out. He definitely knows what it's like to feel defeat and anger, along with frustration and jealousy. He lacks the counter balance for them. He would likely feel his own form of frustration, especially because Pantalone dares speak to him like that, much less after everything the Doctor has done for him. How dare he go against Dottore, they were on the same side.

Arguably, I think Pantalone's opinion is the only one Dottore would respect, every once in a blue moon. Only because he's the only Harbinger that doesn't actively pursue murder and instead plays the game of manipulation. And when two manipulative bastards are honest with each other for once... It doesn't end well.

So there's my brainrot for that. Hopefully it makes sense, I wrote this in the middle of the night with only two braincells skipping in circles to the "it's corn" meme.

Dottore is just a mess of a man, there's no explaining it. I cannot with his thought process, it just jumps around like a possessed Easter bunny.

Meanwhile Pantalone is just enough of a bastard to be coherent, there's a reason why I live their dynamic. Scattered and composed, the perfect complementary personalities.

#il dottore #il dottore character study #help this was written at midnight #pantalone #babytorre #fatui harbingers #fatui headcanons #genshin impact #genshin impact headcanons #psychopathy #have you seen how he dresses #please

[enarei]

The word "prejudice" is often mistaken by Portuguese speakers with "preconception", because the latter sounds like "preconceito", which translates to the English meaning of prejudice, and although they can be interpreted as synonyms, "preconception" is not used to the same extent. One example of this, you may see them call a prejudiced person "preconceptuous", which doesn't mean anything.

At the same time there's "prejuízo", which has the same etymology as "prejudice", but actually means "damages/(financial) loss" in Portuguese, rather than discrimination/bias. As with "preconception" implying bias, the latter meaning is acceptable, but much less common and people usually won't understand what you mean if you use it in that context.

According to Wiktionary, both prejuízo/prejudice come from the Latin praeiūdicium ("pre-judgement"), which have various descendants. Interestingly, of those descendants:

Portuguese - prejuízo: means damage

French - préjudice: means damage

Romanian - prejudiciu: means damage

English - prejudice: means bias

Italian - pregiudizio: apparently either, but bias is listed first.

Spanish/Catalan are the odd ones out, because you have both "perjuicio/perjudici", and "prejuicio/prejudici", for damage/bias respectively. This seems so much more intuitive.

[finesse1]

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[maximumslogandensity]

Autofiction, the inability to abstract anything beyond one's own eyes and immediate awareness, is nothing more than the cultural logic of a civilization on the brink of collapse, complete cultural decline into barbarism, into zombie apocalypse, into the human zoo, into a not only premodern but preconceptual, prehuman, meaning purely animalistic, state of nature which, like autofiction's barely illiterate sentences, are solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

18/11/23

[before-parenthood]

i’m not even sure if or when we want to be parents, but we’ve been talking about it. And yesterday, he said he was thinking about it.

It doesn’t stress me out anymore like it used to. I don’t have a strong urge of no anymore either.

But i do feel scared. Of things going wrong. Particularly because of my obesity, a BMI of 39.3!! I need to reduce weight from 113 kg to 83 kg before even we start to conceive.

So here i am researching stuff.

Offspring of overweight and obese women are at increased risk to be born large-for-gestational age and become overweight or obese as children or adults. Risk relates to maternal preconceptual weight, weight gain, and maternal glucose metabolism during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

After the pregnancy, mothers continue to influence their infants’ weight gain and weight status. Breastfeeding is one factor that promotes optimal weight gain in infants. Risk reduction is related to exclusivity and duration of breastfeeding. One postulated mechanism is the promotion of self-regulation of appetite in the infant. Another important factor is the timing of introduction of supplemental baby foods. Infants who receive first baby foods later in the first 6 months exhibit lower risk for obesity than those who receive baby foods early in that period. In addition, the family food and activity environment are important predictors of early weight gain.

For the newborn infant, the strongest predictor of later obesity is maternal preconceptual BMI. The mother’s preconceptual weight status is a marker of both environmental and genetic risk for the child. Genetic traits from the family can influence obesity risk.

Excess gestational weight gain is associated with risk for both the infant and the mother. In approximately two-thirds of U.S. pregnancies, weight gain exceeds Institute of Medicine guidelines.

Risks for Infant: Excess gestational weight gain is associated with fetal macrosomia and increased risk for developing childhood obesity. Macrosomic infants are at increased risk of obesity in childhood and adulthood compared to normal birthweight infants. Thus, more optimal gestational weight gain decreases risk for high birthweight.

It is well documented that many women increase caloric intake and decrease physical activity during pregnancy. Based on knowledge gained from nutrition and physical activity interventions promoting behavior change techniques, limiting excess caloric intake and increasing exercise during pregnancy may reduce gestational weight gain. Curbing excess gestational weight gain has been associated with lower risk of childhood overweight. This is true even when first and second trimester weight gain have exceeded the recommended guidelines.

Infants’ individual weight gain trajectories continue on a consistent path from prenatal into postnatal life. The effect of gestational weight gain on infant weight continues after birth, as fetal weight in the last trimester is associated with infant weight gain in the first months of life and subsequent risk for obesity.

Risks for mother: Excess gestational weight gain not only presents health risks for the mother during pregnancy, labor, and delivery, but also significant increased risk for postpartum weight retention. Furthermore, return to prepregnancy weight is important not only for the mother’s health, but also the health of her future infants.

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#personal thoughts #research

[rnomics]

Single-cell multi-omics of human preimplantation embryos shows susceptibility to glucocorticoids [RESEARCH]

The preconceptual, intrauterine, and early life environments can have a profound and long-lasting impact on the developmental trajectories and health outcomes of the offspring. Given the relatively low success rates of assisted reproductive technologies (ART; ~25%), additives and adjuvants, such as glucocorticoids, are used to improve the success rate. Considering the dynamic developmental events that occur during this window, these exposures may alter blastocyst formation at a molecular level, and as such, affect not only the viability of the embryo and the ability of the blastocyst to implant, but also the developmental trajectory of the first three cell lineages, ultimately influencing the physiology of the embryo. In this study, we present a comprehensive single-cell transcriptome, methylome, and small #RNA atlas in the day 7 human embryo. We show that, despite no change in morphology and developmental features, preimplantation glucocorticoid exposure reprograms the molecular profile of the trophectoderm (TE) lineage, and these changes are associated with an altered metabolic and inflammatory response. Our data also suggest that glucocorticoids can precociously mature the TE sublineages, supported by the presence of extravillous trophoblast markers in the polar sublineage and presence of X Chromosome dosage compensation. Further, we have elucidated that epigenetic regulation—DNA methylation and micro#RNAs (#miRNAs)—likely underlies the transcriptional changes observed. This study suggests that exposures to exogenous compounds during preimplantation may unintentionally reprogram the human embryo, possibly leading to suboptimal development and longer-term health outcomes. http://genome.cshlp.org/cgi/content/short/32/9/1627?rss=1&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

[steshathinksart]

My academic past is rife with metaphors of haunting and possession, but these are the experiences that come with negative connotations. There are aspects, though, that I welcome and that I don't find monstrous. I'm not quite sure what metaphor matches that side of the bittersweet things I came away with after years of residing in the philosophic spaces of academia; gifts doesn't seem enough.

Whatever I could call them, above all the other experiences stands research! Give me a pile of books on esoteric topics and I'll be lost in my world of coming to know with no reason to come back to reality. This week I've thrown myself into the research of miniatures. The most intriquing aspect of my reading thus far has been the common thread of Chaos and control itty bitty scenes necessarily embody. By creating these little worlds, the creator is met with the unavoidable truth that we don't actually have all that much power over what comes our way. (My two favorite sources so far are The Saturated World by Beverly Gordon; 2006 and this article)

I love that, because I love Chaos. I worship it, truth be told. But I don't use this term in the everyday sense we tend to in our culture where it is understood as synonymous with calamity. Chaos, instead, is that primordial first; that which, according to Hesiod's Theogony, gave rise to all others. Chaos is the world before the whole had parts, the literal preconceptual. I've been trying for awhile now to find a way to talk about Chaos through art without much success, so that this seems to be a common theme in the dialogue of miniature worlds is very exciting.

#hauntologywriting #hauntology #art #philosophy #miniature #ghosts

[irishprematurebabies]

Interesting article and study. Just something to be aware about. There have been 2 studies this year looking at the role of plastics for preconceptual and prenatal care. https://consumer.healthday.com/b-7-14-chemicals-found-in-cosmetics-plastics-linked-to-preterm-delivery-2657652790.html #pregnancy ##pretermbaby #nicu #preterm #pretermlabor #pretermbirth #nicubaby #newborn #prematurebaby #preemie #baby #nicumom #preemiebaby #love #premature #pregnancy #niculife #preemiestrong  #pregnant #premmiepower  #neonatology #mummyblogger #nicumum #preemiebabies #premmiebaby #insta (at Ireland (country)) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7pDCTqLMv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[beguines]

We interact with the pain and joy of life in God by means of symbols. They help us to communicate among our solitudes and within our solitudes, within our consciousness and what lies beyond consciousness in our "unconscious", in preconceptual and superconceptual engagement, and in the heart (all of which are different one from another). Symbols become crucial in the work of salvation because they have the potential to spring us from the traps we have made for ourselves by our secular techniques. Symbols can illumine solitude and draw us toward the density of glory where all creaturely experience coalesces.

However, symbols equally can trap us and make solitude inaccessible . . . Symbols in the service of making our selves feel safe can thus be instrumental in narrowing us and trapping us in the real hell of isolation. Or, if symbols are manipulatively employed in the service of our lust for "religious experience," they can summon horrors that overwhelm us. Hell is not other people but rather choosing to allow in our existence only the illusory self-image and experience we substitute for our selves, others, and our engagement with God in order to avoid embracing our own darkness.

Maggie Ross, Pillars of Flame: Power, Priesthood, and Spiritual Maturity

#maggie ross #pillars of flame #theology

[legofemme]

I think something a lot of fanfiction artists seem to struggle with is keeping a characters. Well. Character, true to them while also trying to execute a preconceptualized concept

What i mean is like- too often do I see a fic start out with the characters written wonderfully, and then see them slowly drift into vague, watered down versions of themselves as plot plays out. Too many writers are so focused on getting a certain scenario written that they forget to think about whether or not that scenario is even something the character would do in the first place

#vani verbals #dont get me wrong its actually like. rlly hard to learn how to do tjis yknow #its why i uuuu stopped working on quite a bit of stuff. no way to retcon things so might as well scrap the entire fic

[the-english-student-studyblr]

So even though I haven't had time to actually do any work on the Book(tm), I have been thinking about it a lot (especially when I watch documentaries about teh norse/iceland which is a not-so-guilty pleasure of mine. Indulge your special interests, people!).

Anyway, I recently saw a writing post (which I now can't find) that basically suggested genderbending your characters to see hwat changes, and that concept fascinates me. I cannot stop thinking about it.

If you change the gender of any of the characters the story is completely different. There is no way around that. Because so much of it is rooted in gender dynamics and stories of female lives in a preconceptually male-dominated society (I say preconceptually because there are a whole load of historical things about women in the norse/viking age including in the sagas that disproves the whole 'only men were important' thing but that's a story for another day, namely the Book(tm). ), you cannot make any of the central cast the opposite gender without telling a completely different story.

We start with two twin girls, Rúna and Ragni. If you flip one of their genders, you lose a lot of the plot surrounding inheritance. There's a male heir so you can't explore the really complicated law surrounding how daughters can act as sons. If you flip both, you suddenly end up with the set up of a really great traditional saga narrative full of revenge and blood feuds, which is great but also has been done to death by now and isn't really the story I want to tell. In Rúna's case specifically, flipping her gender opens up an entirely new exploration of gender dynamics, centred on how magic is viewed with regards to gender. Boys weren't really allowed to do magic, or at least it was frowned upon, so flipping that would set up a great conflict with society. Of course that would come at the expense of any other plot, and the motivations of the story would be so monumentally different I'm not even sure magic would even play into it, so it's really not worth it.

At the end of the day, I have learnt two things from this:

1. it is way to easy to distract me from the work I have to do by waving shiny writing thought exercises in my face along with historical context

2. I like to write about women.

It is also kinda gratifying to know that if you flipped the gender I do have the set up for the traditional norse saga, because that was my starting point (what if we took a saga, made them women, and made the retelling actually accurate and not...hollywood).

So yeah, that's a very rambly update on the state of the Book(tm) that is still sitting at approximately 15k words of snippets.

#writeblr #norse mythology #writing the Book(tm) #i forgot what the tag is #musings #i was talking about this with a friend the other night and god i still can't stop thinking about it #like would Rúna even pursue magic without the motivation of 'i am powerless in a society that's all about power'? #Ragni's internal conflict is all about whether her happiness is worth her family's honour #and to a lesser extent whether love is worth her independence which was pretty rare #and the fact that that independence allows her choices in these things #that struggle would not exist if she were a guy #if you genderbent Ragni the story becomes almost entirely Rúna's just because she's the one facing the more interesting subversive challeng #if you genderbent Rúna the story becomes Ragni's struggle to find a place in a narrative that does not want her there #if you genderbent both it's just a traditional family feud saga over an inheritance which is formally legitimate but also kinda dull and no #i feel like this is only interesting to me #but oh well #you get my rambling anyway

[sgcairo]

OH ALSO SOMETHING HAS BEEN IN MY MIND. From all the asks I have sent I cannot say “dottore doesn’t care about Anastasy” because it would reflect a poor reading comprehension. YET I will say that I think the reason behind the poor treatment the baby met was because dottore was simply repeating the cycle (on my mind he is as fatherless as one can be) like he was doing what was done to him as a child, feeding clothing and generally meeting babyttore needs by the same way he does. Since I believe on the emotional side dottore cannot notice himself being hurtful (and genuinely realizing it) until someone shakes him like a truck.

Meanwhile pantalone as a child had someone to take care of, that’s why he is experienced. Or at least had an idea of what a typical human need as a child. But on dottore’s side I don’t believe he did. His idea is simply keep him alive as long as possible

As much as I see dottore not giving a single fuck about the child but if this was his case then he would stay the same till forever, with pantalone or not he will always hold onto his habits. It’s not even a habit but a whole personality and mindset. Esp that he is still stuck on his @ed that dottore is stuck on his "preconceptual morality" phase!

Roasting Dottore on a stick today, are we?

The contrast between Pantalone and Dottore's experience with children is definitely a big one, I would even call it a juxtaposition. Dottore's feelings on raising a child are... mixed, at best. He has a history with hurting them, on top of his self inflicted blindsighting to others' needs. He's missing the concept of empathy, on top of that, which makes for a neglectful parent in this case.

But before we go off and say that he's a bad parent, I must bring up the part where Babytorre was an experiment in Dottore's eyes before he was his son. He was supposed to be another nameless clone to serve Dottore's needs, nothing more beyond that. Dottore didn't expect Babytorre to pop out of the pod early, not to mention the demand for him to take care of a lifeform he considers inferior to himself. Babytorre is a failed experiment, and Dottore is not known for being kind to failure, especially not the poor ruin guard parts that have faced his wrath. That's not a justification for just straight up abandoning a child that is dependent on you, but Dottore's morality is about as reliable as my update schedule (which is... not).

He doesn't think of Anastasiy as his kid until he realizes how helpless this child is, let alone how much he sticks to Dottore because he doesn't know what else to do. Despite having Pantalone, much more reliable and protective, Anastasiy still gravitates to Dottore for more... domestic things, like dragging his favorite book over for Dottore to read or following him around the lab and hiding in his coat. Or when he gets a little boo-boo... straight to Dottore. Crying and everything. He trusts Dottore even if that's the worst thing to do, all because Dottore was the first thing he saw. Even if Dottore did abandon him, there are just some biological things that can't be overridden. Dottore is temperamental, cruel, and untrustworthy... but when thrust into a world you know nothing about, it's only reasonable that you attach yourself to the first thing you know, even if it is scary.

And the preconceptual morality- don't get me started on the bizarre psychology of this science man. His ego-centrism is that of a small child, and he really never moved past the "I throw a fit if I don't get what I want" stage of life. Except his fits are much more dangerous than a small child, because he is a full grown man with delusions of grandeur that can and will dispose of you if you piss him off. Case in point: Krupp. Even if it was a clone that did away with him, same concept.

I'm going to be honest, Dottore having daddy issues is laughable, but not as much so when he puts you on the vivisection table.

#il dottore #dottore #pantalone #anastasiy #babytorre #fatui harbingers #fatui headcanons #genshin impact #genshin impact headcanons

[noosphe-re]

In a society that accords priority to that which is predictable and places a premium on certainty, our spontaneous, preconceptual experience, when acknowledged at all, is referred to as "merely subjective." The fluid realm of direct experience has come to be seen as a secondary, derivative dimension, a mere consequence of events unfolding in the "realer" world of quantifiable and measurable scientific "facts." It is a curious inversion of the actual, demonstrable state of affairs. Subatomic quanta are now taken to be more primordial and "real" than the world we experience with our unaided senses. The living, feeling, and thinking organism is assumed to derive, somehow, from the mechanical body whose reflexes and "systems" have been measured and mapped, the living person now an epiphenomenon of the anatomized corpse. That it takes living, sensing subjects, complete with their enigmatic emotions and unpredictable passions, to conceive of those subatomic fields, or to dissect and anatomize the body, is readily overlooked, or brushed aside as inconsequential.

David Abram

#quote #David Abram #biology #science #scientism #experience #perception #organism #human experience #philosophy

[mysticallion]

Identity 101

“Oh, who the fuck are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)”

~The Who, Who are You

Your sense of identity, of “I-ness,” is largely determined by your self-image, which is essentially a reflexive psychic structure. This self-image is a dynamic mental construct, a mind-made composite consisting of various self-representations—a sort of self-perpetuating memory chain that helps facilitate a relatively stable psychological sense of continuity and individuality. This is the ongoing idea you have of yourself, of a “me” that persists in (the belief of) its own unbroken continuity of identity. It’s the deep-seated, mostly taken-for-granted “assumption” that there is an unchanging center to our experience, a “me” that exists independently of the endless biological and psychological changes it accrues over its life-cycle.

Again, it’s a complex process, consisting of many layers. For one, there is your self-story—that is, the mental-verbal ideas you entertain about “who I am,” composed mostly of memories and imagination and inheriated concepts. It’s how you would describe yourself if you were being brutally open and honest, but it is primarily a key component of your persona, a story your mind rehearses and reflects on constantly.

Then there’s the somatic aspects of your self-image—your bodily boundaries and borders, as rendered psychologically, with reference to both your “internally subjective” experience (how you feel on the inside to yourself) and your “physically objective” self-images (based on how you perceive/conceive your own body to appear), which can often differ radically from reality, as seen for example in people suffering from affective disorders such as body dysmorphic disorder and anorexia nervosa.

There are other, deeper (more primitive and fundamental) layers to this self-image, composed of instinctual energies, rudimentary psychic formations, preconceptual constructs, and functions inherented from our primitive past. Suffice it to say, however, that regardless of the grossness or subtlety of its expression, the self-image—the ego—is exactly and only that: an image.

All of this is interesting from a spiritual perspective because one of the primary functions of a genuine meditative path is to expose all of this self-identity (ego) activity for the “mind-made hallucination” it really is. By systematically identifying and understanding these formations and activities in our own direct, immediate experience (as opposed to merely intellectually understanding them) we can deconstruct and disempower the incessant mental activities involved in maintaining the self-image and its conceptual boundaries. What we discover beneath this persona, this mental facade, is what spirituality calls our True Nature, which is not an image or a mental formation or a thought at all, but is rather the immediate experience of Presence, of Being, of fundamental Existence itself.