Native-State

Native-state refers to the default vultology a person has, and which they return to when not modulating or exerting themselves in any other direction. It corresponds to a person's cognitive type, irrespective of development. Native-state does not refer to the most energetically visible process in a given slice of time, as this can sometimes be a function other than the primary. Modulation can cause functions other than the primary function to momentarily assume the most visibility in the body. However, the native-state function will never lose its default bodily influence and this will manifest in an energetic toll that will continually draw the person's vultology back to this default state. The native-state can be thought of as the water we swim in, while we momentarily deviate from it to enter other modalities.

Identifying Native-State

There are two ways to identify native-state, depending on what information is available for vultological analysis.

1. Overall Baseline

Given enough footage, the native-state reveals itself as the default energy a person returns to if we observe the individual for long periods of time. However, when doing visual analyses, we don't always have an abundance of footage of a person in day-to-day life, making the identification of the native-state challenging.^[1] If for example the only footage available of an individual is when they are giving lectures or public presentations, then we will not have the proper data to evaluate the native-state using this method, due to how these contexts can force modulation to occur.

2. Energetic Toll

The second way to identify the native-state is by looking at Energetic Toll, which describes how the body exerts itself when going from state-A to state-B and back to state-A. Energetic toll can bypass the problems of the first approach by measuring bodily strain when moving from one energetic to another.^[2] In this way, even if our available footage mostly shows for example Je moments, if all the Je moments are heavily strained and filled with struggle, we know the individual is not a native-state Je-lead. Likewise, if the body appears very buoyant and animated (Pe) in the available footage, but is very quick to recede back to a central poise (Ji) at every chance, this indicates native-state Ji modulating Pe at high levels.

Psychological Significance

Native-state vultology correlates to innate cognitive type, but it does not necessarily correlate to ego-fixation. If, for example, an FiNe with strongly developed Ne, prefers the energy of her Ne function, their psychology may wish to move away from Fi towards Ne values and playfulness. However, she will not be able to escape the persistent underlying rigidity and principled nature of her Fi, which will come out consistently whenever the modulation of Ne stops. The native-state is a reliable indicator of our unavoidable cognitive bias, whether or not we value it explicitly.

Modulation is voluntary, but native-state is involuntary; it is the physical and psychological return to our innate center, just as an elastic band can stretch but will always return to its original form.

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