#Preverbal
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anubisthejackal.bsky.social
Technically, this is why kids are better at solving novel puzzles than adults.

That said - kids are still way smarter than bots because preverbal kids already sort fact and fiction (according to feedback from adults)
October 2, 2026 at 7:39 PM
chrish2122.bsky.social
The real question to ask is “what’s wrong with the people who do follow you?” Not the preverbal you but just we in general.
September 30, 2026 at 2:56 PM
gingerest.bsky.social
also true of preverbal children (although they don't seem to content themselves with staring - screaming seems to be more motivating)
September 29, 2026 at 3:14 AM
morchellandmath.bsky.social
🤨
As for Piaget's and DeVries's older children, shadows are for preverbal children a wonderful litmus test for the conception of physical reality. Shadows are physical objects, but they are immaterial, so they need a place of their own in the collection of theories about the world. But for very young children there is another problem. Just look around: shadows are very prominent because they are dark, high-contrast spots in the visual field. A pebble on a sunny beach casts a shadow on the sand far darker than the stone itself. So a shadow risks confusing a newborn, who might take it for a material object and invest too many mental resources in it. To solve this problem, evolution might have designed babies who just did not see shadows, providing, for example, a cognitive "filter" canceling them out. An experiment by Gretchen Van de Walle, Jayne Rubenstein, and Elizabeth Spelke shows, however, that babies (between five and eight months old) recognize the difference between a shadow standing still and a shadow moving, and that they thus register the presence of shadows rather than filtering them out completely, though it is not clear whether they see them as shadows or as dark spots.
September 27, 2026 at 3:57 PM
morchellandmath.bsky.social
Neat.
But how can one understand what a child really thinks? Piaget believed that the best way was to ask the child himself. (Naturally, this works only if the child already can talk, so it excludes preverbal chil-dren.) And indeed, nothing could be simpler. The children interviewed about shadows were between five and ten years old. Their answers during the interview were subtle and inventive. Gall (the strange names are codes used by Piaget) said that the shadow of a hand is dark because the hand has bones. Tab thought that shadow was created by night. Re was convinced that his shadow could be torn off by piercing it with an umbrella, and when he was shown that the shadow actually stayed in place, he replied that there's another shadow underneath the first one. According to Stei, the chair's shadow didn't move because it was caught under the chair's legs. In shadows Gill and Leo saw the portrait and the model of the person casting the shadow. Bab had an audacious theory: objects cast a shadow only on one side in the daytime because it's nighttime on the other side. So what happens at night? Well, at night objects cast shadows on both sides. For Roy shadow was a substance that occupied space and was impermeable to light. And there were also some who said that the shadowed side was dark because the light can't see it.
September 27, 2026 at 3:45 PM
rafaelguisado.bsky.social
“Hoy puedes observar esto: Una respuesta preverbal se transforma mediante vías corporales y relacionales.”

Que tengas un buen día y… recuerda respirar… 🌊
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RobinReach
September 24, 2026 at 7:02 AM
sillymickel.bsky.social
*FALLS FROM GRACE: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness* (2014) by Michael Adzema

CHAPTER 7, p. 41

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THE LEGITIMACY OF PRENATAL SPIRITUALITY Page 41 Is Catharsis Anti-Spiritual? Attacking from the other side we have Wilber (1982) claiming that preverbal experiences are to be distinguished from transpersonal experiences. He claims that “because both pre-X and trans-X are, in their own ways, non-X, they may appear similar, even identical, to the untutored eye,” whereas in reality they are profoundly different (p. 5). He posits a structure of linear development in which one conceivably could “regress” to pre-X, to prepersonal experience, and mistake it for transpersonal experience. Therefore he would claim that such experiences as we undergo in the phenomenon of re-experience are actual “regressions” on the spiritual path and are antithetical to a true spiritual quest. He would also claim a spiritual meditative practice is antithetical to one of re- experience or “regression therapy.” Meditation Is Often Emotionally “Messy” Wilber’s theory strikes me as a curiously dualistic way of interpreting a nondichotomous reality. And although his reasoning is tight and internally consistent, it excludes the evidence of transpersonal experience as exhibited in the spiritual, psychedelic,
September 21, 2026 at 6:51 AM
cabernet.bsky.social
This one:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36681607/

(is this anything?)
Protracted development of motor cortex constrains rich interpretations of infant cognition - PubMed
Cognition in preverbal human infants must be inferred from overt motor behaviors such as gaze shifts, head turns, or reaching for objects. However, infant mammals - including human infants - show protracted postnatal development of cortical motor outflow. Cortical control of eye, face, head, and lim …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 20, 2026 at 1:25 AM
quesarahsera.bsky.social
Also, I've yet to meet a cat person of any age who spurned an opportunity to engage socially about cats. During my regular volunteer shift at local SPCA, a preverbal toddler happily interacted with me whilst their family considered cats available for adoption.
September 16, 2026 at 10:54 PM
ianmsanders.bsky.social
Been in a very dark place, so been taking time to sit on the preverbal 'Park bench' and watch the world go by. Today had oncology call. PSA level slightly down at 0.18 !! :-)) everything else also good. Next Oncologist call in January !!. (wished her Merry Xmas) So hols to go on & enjoying ourselves
September 16, 2026 at 6:41 PM
sweetestbrowncoat.bsky.social
preverbal clouds and his heart pinned to his sleeve. Most of the scars on the drow, the ones on his face and neck, came from Vornssth's teachings. About the cruelest thing he did however is while having the boys dual with real blades, he would stop them before a killing blow is landed, a dead >>
September 16, 2026 at 12:13 PM
jasoltan.bsky.social
Jr. waiting for the preverbal flood?
September 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
adoptiontrauma.bsky.social
If you're an adoptee, you may recognize these points as adoption trauma that can activate or reactivate across a lifetime.

Sharing my work: Adoption Lifespan Activation Framework + the Adoption Trauma Spectrum.

#adoptee #adoptiontrauma #adoption #relinquishmenth
Infographic titled "The Adoption Lifespan Activation Framework: A Lifespan Model of Adoption Trauma." Three stacked sections. Top: "Core Theoretical Foundations" — seven bodies of theory grouped as Trauma & Loss (Relinquishment Trauma, Complex PTSD, Ambiguous Loss, Disenfranchised Grief) and Attachment & Identity (Attachment Theory, Cultural-Racial Identity Model, Adoptee Consciousness Model). Middle: "The Adoption Trauma Spectrumjj" — nine activation points where trauma can surface or resurface: Relinquishment, Preverbal, Awareness, Adolescence, Late Discovery, Parenthood/Fertility, Reunion, Rejection, Complicated Grief. Bottom: five Developmental Domains — Early Relational Event, Adoption Context, Meaning-Making, Psychosocial Processes, and Psychosocial Outcomes (ranging from Healthy to Challenging). Arrows link the sections: foundations "ground," the spectrum "moderates." Image 2 (Adoption Trauma Spectrum): Dark navy graphic titled "The Adoption Trauma Spectrum." A single point on the left branches out via dashed lines to nine colored bars on the right, each a trauma activation point: Relinquishment, Preverbal, Awareness, Adolescence, Late Discovery, Parenthood, Reunion, Rejection, and Complicated Grief. Footer reads "Adoption Trauma Spectrum Framework."
September 8, 2026 at 11:10 PM
fireflyguitar.bsky.social
Trump and family are the preverbal swap and don’t hide it. They do it in full view of everyone…and brag about it.
September 8, 2026 at 1:21 PM
originallabgrrl.bsky.social
That's fine but how are you giving preverbal babies the vote?
September 8, 2026 at 11:33 AM
anubisthejackal.bsky.social
A preverbal child is already categorizing fact and fiction. An LLM will gleefully output results like telling someone to kill themselves without any ability to understand why that's bad.
pfrazee.com P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 25d
I think you are woefully misinformed if you think this thing is an autocomplete
September 7, 2026 at 7:54 PM
bigrockbigriver.bsky.social
Speaking of learning of Armageddon, I think that they gave me ocd by teaching me this shit.

I was afraid to step on cracks in sidewalks or tiles but I couldn't communicate that bc preverbal.

I was always afraid of hellfire. Still?

Mister is mortified at what they did to me because it was funny.
September 5, 2026 at 1:54 PM
levelsof.bsky.social
you might be interested in this paper then :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Great expectations: The construct validity of the violation‐of‐expectation method for studying infant cognition
The violation-of-expectation method has been used in thousands of studies examining the breadth and depth of preverbal infants' knowledge and cognitive capacities. In this commentary, we review evide...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
maggipeterson5494.bsky.social
I feel same; it feels like we are headed into that preverbal fire🤷🏼‍♀️
September 2, 2026 at 11:25 AM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
In decades past I’ve almost had to be sedated when we had to pack to move homes.

There’s something going on with it for me, but I’ve yet to figure it out. I think it may be a memory from when I was preverbal or just beginning to talk as a baby.

I dunno.

But. It’s not a flaw. Not shameful.
September 1, 2026 at 3:03 AM
shituationist.bsky.social
This dude almost stumbles onto the point with "preverbal". "AI" is a logocentric project that has historically failed to deal with the phenomenological critique.
August 30, 2026 at 2:10 PM
anubisthejackal.bsky.social
Sure, but ... why DOESN'T it understand?

This seems to be what no one can figure out, the millennia old question:

When do a bunch of unconscious signals in the brain become ... self aware? Why are humans - from a preverbal age - able to distinguish fact and fiction?
August 29, 2026 at 4:24 PM
jennekevanderwal.bsky.social
Emai (Edoid, Nigeria) has an incredibly rich conjugation system, which Ronald Schaeffer & Francis Egbokare know all about! The preverbal domain can host a whole range of markers with epistemic functions, showing speculation, assumption, or deduction of info (and more!) #SLE59
August 28, 2026 at 2:21 PM
bigrockbigriver.bsky.social
I mean, idk, I have a 4-5am riser who is an AuDHD sensory seeker who needs high touch to regulate due to in utero and preverbal trauma.

It's called teaching boundaries and regulation and you cannot cry at me about this shit because you are a parent, that is your job.
August 28, 2026 at 1:59 PM