#perceptual

[penhive]

Reason and Passion

Reason is the faculty of the mind to cognize information in the most practical manner.

Passion is an emotional experience.

In this article I would like to focus on the attributes of reason and passion.

Reason

(a Intellectual

Passion as being intellectual embodies the mind and thinking. The mind generates ideas and thoughts become the realm of the senses

(b Cognitive

Reason is also a cognitive experience. The faculty of the mind harnesses information and arrives at a stage of understanding. The mind is a mirror that collects information.

(c Perceptual

Perceptuality is an awareness of sensory experience. It can be an internal reality like dreams or an external one, the act of becoming an experience of sensory objects.

Passion

(a Catharsis

What is the role of catharsis with passion? Catharsis is an experiential cleansing. It is a state of emotion that consolidates passions and that which makes experience camaraderie.

(b Ecstatic

Ecstasy is the passion that is felt by the mind and body. It is narcissism of self-indulgence. It is an experience of the psyche and the body to mirth and merriment. It is reality made ecstatic.

(c Orgasmic

Passion is also orgasmic. The copulating bodies become an indulgence of erotic love. Passion is Venus in blossom. Orgasm is the language of flowers. It is a musical extravaganza to a sumptuous sex appetite.

[russellmoreton]

Camera Obscura : Reflections and the dark room. by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: pictify.com/user/russellmoreton

[razmerry]

not only is under the red hood just phenomenally good writing, some of the best in comics, but it's also such a wonderful premise. what if jason todd, the shitty little baby robin that everyone hated so bad, came back to life to do murder for fun. and serve cunt

[oliverscarlin]

Oliver Scarlin - Papaya, Bowl, Sardines, and Knife (2023)

[cthulhubert]

Alright, so bear with me.

Humans have three cone cells in our eyes that are how we perceive color in the world. I often think red, green, and blue, but apparently people studying them use Long, Medium, and Short to be unambiguous (just for one example, if you activate M really strongly and not L or S, the color people report seeing is yellow-green). Each type activates at different strengths to different wavelengths of light. Here's a lovely graphic from Wikipedia showing response levels of each cone type to different wavelengths:

So you can see that if some light activates L some, but not M, we'll perceive deep red, activates them both a bit, we see orange or yellow, depending on the specific amount.

It's interesting that some effect (a specific mix of pigments, or some structural coloration) could be producing some mostly 495nm light, or a blend of some slightly higher and slightly lower wavelengths, and either way we see cyan. (And a good thing, too, otherwise our display technology would be extremely unconvincing.)

Of course, then there's what happens when we get activation of L and S at once, but not M, our eye-brain systems don't infer "yellow-green", because green is specifically what's missing from there: we generate magenta, a non-spectral color. (And when all three activate we get white, of course.)

I found myself thinking about birds, with their four cones.

They're more evenly spaced too, the bastards. (These bastards are specifically finches but I'm under the impression that most birds are similar.)

(Of course, "violet" actually means ultra-violet here. Look at the graphic, their UV cone stops responding where our S cone starts. I would edit this, but spent like half an hour discovering that tumblr doesn't support table under html or code/"preserve formatting" under markdown anymore; so you get a screencap of what I sent on discord.)

Birds could see "vio-green" (accepting name suggestions) as a color region as distinct from blue/indigo as green is from purple/magenta.

Look at that. Two whole ass independent spectral color divisions we don't have, and six non-spectral inferences. Eight whole categories of visual perception more than us. Decadent.

The heart quails to imagine what the 16 color receptors of a mantis shrimp would create. I mean, okay, it doesn't because we've studied their eyes and brains and they don't blend colors the way we do, smooshing them down to a much simpler set of perceptions.

But imagine if we rebuilt our eyes and brains for it! Color indicates chemistry, with that level of subtle blending of characteristics, would vision become like tasting everything we look at?

Please pet the bear that is with me on your way out.

[de-mykel]

Ay-O. Olympic Women's 100m, 1992.

acrylic on canvas

[orcelito]

I got.... my official adhd diagnosis....🥺🥺🥺🥺

Had my appointment where she went thru all the different parts of the testing and what they found by it. All sorts of things that I didn't even Realize what it was testing. And they pointed to combined type adhd!!!!!

There was also an iq test involved, specifically to test working memory in comparison to other categories, bc that's smth that adhd people tend to score low on. And I did too!!!! Compared to my other scores, at least. It was still average overall, but I scored "high average" on verbal comprehension and "superior" on perceptual reasoning and processing speed. WHICH MEANS!!!! Working memory was my low thing!!! Another thing pointing to it!!!!

Also the weird X test I took was the CPT-3 test and apparently it was geared Specifically towards adhd stuff. Which bc of my "atypically fast" reaction speed + "very elevated" commissions rate (which in this context means incorrectly hit space bar, aka I clicked when I wasn't supposed to) it showed a strong indication of impulsivity & some indication of inattentiveness and vigilance. That impulsivity is the big one here tho.

I'm just really excited now. I have a long report talking about all my brain stuffs that says I Do have adhd and that it would benefit me to take stimulants. AND!!!!! That I DONT have depression or anxiety!!!! That's a fuckin big one!!!!!! Bc they've avoided giving me stimulants in the past bc of the "anxiety" except I don't got it!!!! The examiner said exactly what I thought about it, which is that the prior disgnoses of depression and anxiety probably stemmed from effects of the untreated adhd. Aka I had Feels Bad Disorder. Ykno? Except not actually a disorder bc it was just a byproduct.

SO! Hopefully that can help me to get proper meds as soon as possible. Gonna be contacting my doctor to set up an appointment... soon!!!!!

[contemplatingoutlander]

The children who remember their past lives

I've known for some time about the qualitative research done regarding young children who seem to recall past lives. Of course such research cannot provide the empirical evidence that double-blind controlled studies can provide, but it nonetheless raises some provocative questions. This is a gift🎁link, so you can read all of the article, even if you don't subscribe to The Washington Post. Below are some excerpts from the article:

Two-year-old Aija had invented plenty of fictional characters before, but her parents — Ross, a musician, and Marie, a psychologist — noticed right away that Nina was different.... From the time Aija learned how to talk, she talked about Nina, and her descriptions were remarkably consistent. Aija told her parents that Nina played piano, and she loved dancing, and she favored the color pink (Aija emphatically did not). When Aija spoke as Nina, in the first person, Aija’s demeanor changed: Her voice was sweeter and higher-pitched, her affect more gentle and polite than what Marie and Ross typically expected from their rambunctious toddler. [...] It all seemed more curious than concerning — until one afternoon in the early spring of 2021, when Marie came to believe that there was something more to Nina. That day, Marie recalls, she and Aija were playing together in their living room, enacting little scenes with toy figurines. Then Aija suddenly turned to her mother and said, “Nina has numbers on her arm, and they make her sad.” Marie’s mind raced. “What did you say?” she asked her daughter, willing her voice to remain calm. “Nina has numbers on her arm, and they make her sad,” Aija said again, pointing to the inside of her forearm. Then she added: “Nina misses her family. Nina was taken away from her family.” [...] Marie knows how this story might sound, and she is exceedingly careful about sharing it. Marie also knows that she is not alone — that since the 1960s,more than 2,200 children from across the world have described apparent recollections from a previous life, all documented in a database maintained by the Division of Perceptual Studies within the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Sometimes a child presents enough identifying information for relatives or researchers to pinpoint a deceased person, but that level of specificity is elusive; about a third of the cases in the database do not include such a match. [...] Certain consistent patterns have emerged: The most pronounced and convincing cases, Stevenson and Tucker both found, tend to occur in children between the ages of 2 and 6. They might suddenly describe places they have never been, people they have never met, sometimes using words or phrases that seem beyond their vocabulary. Nightmares or sleep disturbances are occasionally reported. Many of these children are highly verbal, and start speaking earlier than their peers. Their descriptions of past-life recollections often fade away entirely by the time the child turns 7 or 8.

[ed-recoverry]

Shoutout to all my mentally ill folks with learning disabilities❤️

Shoutout to all mentally ill folks with Dyslexia.

Shoutout to all mentally ill folks with Dysgraphia.

Shoutout to all mentally ill folks with Dyscalculia.

Shoutout to all mentally ill folks with Dyspraxia.

Shoutout to all mentally ill folks with Auditory Processing Disorder.

Shoutout to all mentally ill folks with Language processing disorder.

Shoutout to all mentally ill folks with Nonverbal learning disabilities.

Shoutout to all mentally ill folks with Visual perceptual deficits.

Shoutout to all mentally folks with visual motor deficits.

Shoutout to all mentally ill folks with ADD.

Shoutout to all mentally ill folks with ADHD.

Your resilience is something unfounded, with rightful frustration ever so present, you still persevere. Continuing to live on, despite so much holding you back, is admirable. Continue to learn. Continue to thrive. Continue to prove that you have what it takes, because you do.

[cynosurus]

戊 wù 5th heavenly stem

This little bugger keeps tripping me up!

You can put a million things inside it appearently. My brain haven't thought discriminating between the things inside was necessary.

I think I've only actually encountered these: ------------------------------------------------- 成 chéng completed, finished, fixed (and in eg 城,

咸 xián together (encountered in 喊 hǎn shout)

but here are a few more for fun: ---------------------------------- 威 wēi pomp, power; powerful; dominate

戚 qī relative; be related to; sad

戌 xū 11th terrestrial branch

戍 shù defend borders, guard frontiers

烕 xuè, miè to destroy; to exterminate to extinguish

蒧 zhēn, diǎn

蔵 zāng, cáng hide, conceal; hoard, store up

... ... ...

oh, I had not realised it occurs in 感 gǎn feel, perceive, emotion as well!

[sivavakkiyar]

I am less interested in sub genre delineations—-which are almost always what people are talking about on here when they talk about ‘genre’—-and about structural perceptual differences. How different music works, and why it is perceived differently, how people can ‘overcome it’ etc

An example I’ve given before is jazz (obviously.) The specific example is improvisation—-my experience, both personal when I was learning to hear it and from teaching it and music appreciation, is that it’s not hard to get people to like the texture and the melodic heads. That’s purely cultural—-they just have to find that appealing. What is harder are the solos, the improv—-people, especially people raised solely in western musical forms or songcraft, often have a hard time with extended improv (and that can mean 32 bars). This is where the joke from people with ‘taste’ that jazz is ‘playing the melody wrong for 5 minutes’ comes from.

One of the tough things is that music is social. Normally when people talk about their music taste they aren’t talking about the music, they’re talking about themselves, who they are, what they value. Okay, that’s a dismissive platitude, sure. But then they selectively reach for arguments to secure objective validity for what they enjoy and prefer—-okay, you’ve heard that before too. But the funny thing is that it’s hard to ‘verify’ the experience of hearing improv ‘properly’ in someone else, right? Almost hilariously impossible.

[timharrold]

You’ve Heard It Said (15/16.4.24)

[jekyll-doodles]

QUESTION!!! What are the Lords afraid of? (Masked or human)

Ironically enough, the Ambassador. But in opposite directions.

The human lords fear what the ambassador may make them do; the masked lords fear what the ambassador will do if they get bored with them.

[oliverscarlin]

Susan Jane Walp - Papaya on a Turquoise Plate (2000)

[flippythedoodle]

-introductory post-

hi yall, its me

made this thing so i can post stuff im proud of on more than one account, specifically ambigrams

REQUESTS APPRECIATED AND ENCOURAGED

... if you're gonna be respectful ab it. i won't do bigoted, harmful, mean shit. the words of an ambigram are united into one beautiful work of art, and as should we. i can do most any type of ambigram, symmetrical or asymmetrical, conventional or nonconventional, or maybe one you made up! that would be really cool.

----------but flippy, what are ambigrams????------

the definition is quite hard to pinpoint, as it either is too vague to properly distinguish it from something entirely different (like synonyms, heterograms, etc) but the main thing is:

an art form where one or more words are taken and combined with respect to each other such that both are visible from different perspectives/orientations

symmetrical means it uses a single word, while asymmetrical (or symbiotic if you prefer, although that makes them sound like theyre alive) means two or more words.

----------------------flippy, i can't read them!!!!!!----------------------

yeah, it takes a really really really good ambigram to be able to be read clearly both ways. if you can't, and i mean really cant read an ambigram, it's ok, its likely nobody else does either, and i or the ambigram creator is biased to the reading bc they already know it. this is why i made this account, to try to learn how to make mine better :D

-------------but flippyy, what do they look like?????????--------------

examples include:

correct readings in order of top to bottom, left to right:

astound, healing, houses, dumber, 👦/happy, hi!/hey, frick/fuck, hiding/plain sight, stay/leave here, inside out/outside

[gisellelx]

Twilight Advent Calendar, Day 11

Dec. 11 - Besides painting, what art forms does Esme enjoy? How do you imagine her art room/setup looks? (Fan artists, want to show us?)

Masterpost/Prompts

In addition to painting (and photography, 100% agreed with @needahugfromesme's fabulous art), Esme likes to combine her building skill with her creative eye. Mind you, I think it took her a very long time to a) value her art as much as those around her did b) get over the idea that there were things women shouldn't do—painting has always felt more womanly—and c) feel comfortable with her vampire nature enough to exploit it but these days, some of her most intriguing art pieces are absolutely INSANE installations. Like, "managed to weld a light in sideways from a forty-foot ceiling" insane. She likes the interface of architecture and sculpture, and she likes to do things with light and shadow. She often recruits Rosalie to help her with the metallurgy.

While some of her most unique installations are large and complicated structures of metal, wood, and light which seem to defy gravity thanks to her ability to hang from a ceiling by a finger for hours on end, one of her most powerful, and personal, hung tiny pieces of metal vertically so that the eye would take in different shapes depending on whether they were viewed from one angle or from ninety degrees to its side. The metal was arranged such so that it spelled words: RAPE/RESILIENCE was one; VICTIM/SURVIVOR was another; and so on.

It made her husband weep. Then they placed it in the Moco in Barcelona.