Conception refers to the emergent formation of an idea, impression, or meaning within the mind — a nascent coming-into-being shaped through sensation and perception.
It is a dynamic interpretive process through which the Self begins to make sense of the world: gathering fragments of what is seen, sensed, or known, and weaving them into an internal representation — not merely of what is, but of what it might be.
Conception lives at the intersection of memory and meaning-making. It reflects both an act of cognitive synthesis and an affective orientation toward coherence. Whether arising from spontaneous insight or from the slow accumulation of patterned experience, conception is the mind’s first movement toward interpretive understanding.
