10-05-2024, 03:05 AM
(10-05-2024, 02:09 AM)midicon Wrote: That was interesting but not really surprising. I wonder if that too can somehow account for the differences between men and women to some degree. I say that in the sense of how some studies have shown that the corpus callosum in females might be a little thicker.
We also have intuitively always separated the left from the right, even the words themselves suggest differences.
My thirteen year old granddaughter is autistic and completely trapped in the left hemishere. There is real panic and anxiety when she cant control or understand something.
I have had conversations with her explaining how the left and right hemispheres differ and why one is regarded as feminine and the other masculine.
I never connected the idea of brain physiology being substantially different between the sexes. Each brain may be tuned to the physiological differences between sexes, but in function each seems quite analogous and almost eerily similar. I always thought that sex is not much of a determinant of mental function, since humans share most every known weakness in normal brain functions. Perhaps brains are a homogenous organ. Not in function, but in physiology.
It makes me question if the left/right organization of mental processing is really related to sex.
Not disagreeing with you, just noting that's new to me.
(And I recognize that there is a difference between brain and 'mind'... another wrinkle in my understanding.)
And since I'm not ego driven, I can freely admit I could be wrong.