GENIUS FORUMS

Dear Kelly, I agree that, in one sense, "every conscious person's experiences are 'wholistic' and 'ever-changing[,]'[ ]whether they're incapable of thought or not," but, I wish to paint the picture of a mind that is a species-level more integrated. I agree with what you say about inconsist...

Alex appears to have left the building...

Dear Kelly I would situate intuition as part of the preconscious , the "back of the mind" where "tip of the tongue" un-worded memories and henids exist and are processed. For your purposes, though, preconsciousness is a part of the "conscious experience." So, we agree, ...

Bravo to Mr. Anders Schlander, for that insightful post. It doesn't answer my specific questions, but, it adds to the fat of the argument.

Yours,

"Starbird"

Dear Kelly, Let me see if I understand you. (1) Are you saying that "consciousness"--by which I understand to mean word-based conceptualisation "at the front of the mind," so to speak, in contrast to intuitive, amorphous quasi-conceptualisation termed intuition "at the back ...

Dear Kelly, Okay, let's say we've isolated what appears to be a, or the, missing element, and it appears to be an element missing in men, not in women. How does this specifically translate into the mental architecture of the mind? A missing element can result from there either being not enough menta...

Dear Kelly, Does this capacity to create useful blind spots or psychic shields against psychological pain during solitary introspection, as you more or less put it, indicate that the male mind is actually comprised differently than the female mind, in principle? By which I mean, is there any element...

Dear Carmel, My beloved, is none other than my sister, Europa, finest moon ever clutched by the jealous Jupiter, whose pure, pale, and sacred flesh I wilt suffer queither man, nor woman, nor beast, nor any assemblage of titanium with mind of sand, to probe, nor even touch. Alternatives to her sweet ...

Dear jupiviv, Are you implying that women are in fact less aware of their environment than men, the self-conscious or subconscious anxiety regarding which in turn spurs them to pay, subconsciously or otherwise, more attention to interrelational subtleties? Dost the fair sex straineth their ears To l...

Dear Carmel, I value my egotistical fantasies very much, and will not suffer their disengagement from my mentation. I take feminine as you apply it to me as a compliment. But, when it comes to science, I'm afraid that you and I will soon part ways, for no science can prove my love is true, nor the l...

Dear Mr. Jacob, I am on your spiritual side, I'm afraid. Your opponents here are not Generalists but more along the lines of the Scientism-peddlers of statistical ontologies rife in places such as the James Randi Educational Foundation, and the like. They have made a mental career of "not getti...

Dear bluerap, I'm not looking for brain science, which has limited purview. I'm looking for whether a man's mind is an apple as a woman's mind is a different size of apple, or is a man's mind an apple and a woman's mind an orange? Are they the same thing, with all the same elements of thought: perce...

Dear bluerap,

That is an interesting article, with a compelling statistic, but, does it lead to a fundamental difference, by which I mean a principled difference? Are men and women's minds different in degree or in kind?

Yours,

"Starbird"

Dear David, Doesn't your statement, "...I'm not sure that women (in general) are conscious enough or advanced enough to be aware of higher forms of masculinity, let alone to be afraid of them...." imply that women are fundamentally different in their mental processes as to have that lack o...

Dear David, Those aren't intrinsic, though, those are matters of degree. A sufficiently skilled man can master perspicuity relating to nuances of gesture and voice. However, I have read (from one Simon Sheppard, as I recall) that women intrinsically cannot stand to be exposed to "pure masculini...

Dear All, I was going to proffer this in terms of women's blind spot, but, I thought it better to start with men. Is there some aspect of reality that women see that men don't? Or, a la Otto Weininger, does masculinity encompass femininity wholly so that only women have an intrinsic blind spot, a pl...