Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

THERE ARE DIMENSIONS TO SEX DIFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT…. AND HERE THEY ARE:

–“Q: CURT: Is it possible to produce a male, who is cognitively feminine, who demonstrates spectrum behaviors of Compartmentalization, Social Anxiety, ADHD and OCD?”–

Answer: of course, we find females with autism spectrum disorder who otherwise demonstrate some variation on the other sex differences. We find males with solipsism and psychosis who otherwise demonstrate some variation on the other sex differences.

WHY?
Bias in the brain: structural, procedural, valuative, reproductive, regulatory – then the consequences:

1. BIASES
(a) Structural
i. Hemispheric bias: Female prey, right hemisphere bias vs Male, predator, left hemisphere bias.
ii. Neurological organization: male more compartmentalized (less, faster. decidability, action), female integrated (more, slower, experiential, preference)

(b) Procedural
i. Temporal Bias: Female lateral in time, vs Male Longitudinal over time.
ii. Measurement Bias: Female empathizing in time vs male systematizing over time
iii: Measurement System Bias: Female verbal, pictorial, empathic bias vs male operational, spatial, systemic bias.
iv. Goal Bias: Female search for consumption as status vs male search for capital as status.
v. Risk Bias: Female evasion of risk vs male utility of risk.
iv. Responsibility Bias: Female irresponsibility (consumption bias + risk) for commons vs male responsibility for commons (capitalization bias + risk).

(c) Valuative
i. Valence, or emotional significance processing of the brain.

(d) Reproductive
i. Attraction (sexual orientation) Male traits vs female traits.

(e) Regulatory
i. Capacity (agency) to regulate impulse: female emotional impulse and flight response, vs male physical impulse and dominance response.

And at least in general terms, they develop largely in that order unless something goes wrong in utero.

2. CONSEQUENCES:
(a) Distribution All people vary on all a, b, c, d, and e axes of development, with sex stereotypes consistent at some level but biases varying somewhat in the extreme. So we can have effeminate males and masculine females but oddly enough, except at the extremes, we can still identify the sex of the individual
by watching the processing in the brain.

(b) Variation in Sex Bias in Organization: Male compartmental autism (insufficient integration) vs female integrated psychosis (insufficient compartmentalization) can occur while maintaining structural, valuative, and reproductive normalcy but the consequence is a decline in regulatory ability and therefore agency.

(c) Extreme (broken) variations can occur in a, b, c, d, or e, without the same variation occuring in the other systems.
For example, one we’re quite aware of, is that sexual development is somewhat fragile, so sexual attraction can vary while preserving all other developmental biases.

So to answer the original question, an individual can be both autistic and cognitively, and valuatively feminine without being reproductively feminine.

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