A Convergence Of Two Minds: Origins Of Self-Awareness And Identity

Gender arrives in the form of our reproductive anatomy at birth, which sets the way the world sees us, whereas gender at the level of the mind sets the way we see the world. The mind is the legacy of life experiences from our male and female ancestors, expressed as "maleness" and "femaleness" in the respective hemispheres of the brain--our Two Minds. We are anatomically male or female, but in matters of the mind--perception and behavior--we are male and female.So begins the revolutionary view of gender by Randolph Croxton, which Kirkus Reviews has called "...an intriguing theory." Drawing on evolutionary biology, anthropology and neurobiology, three assertions map a new evolutionary pathway into the modern world:1.100,000 years ago we emerged as human from an animalistic existence--the result of the convergence, of the dominant (maleness) left hemisphere with the ascending creative/social (femaleness) right hemisphere of the brain.2.This birth of self-awareness, simultaneous access to both of our opposite natures (e.g. aggressive + empathetic or analytical + creative), gave the ultimate advantage to our species: deliberative thought. Through innovation in projectile weapons and social order, we rose to dominate all life and occupy all lands on Earth.3.DNA was the primary pathway of our evolution up to emergence, but it was the joining of the gendered hemispheres of the brain, which achieved self-awareness and the infinite variability of the human mindset.Croxton asserts that RNA imparts this diversity in individual perception, and therefore behavior, with each birth--an immediate resilience of the human population. We each display a unique combination of sexual and non-sexual characteristics that we see every day on the evening news--from saints to psychopaths. Non-sexual characteristics include the conservative protect and defend (maleness) and the liberal creative and empathetic (femaleness), while the sexual spectrum of preference and identity includes heterosexual, bi-sexual, homosexual and transsexual. For reasons of survival, there is no such thing as a "normal" brain. As it turns out, we each possess not one, but two, opposing, yet interdependent, natures of the mind: male and female.

• | Author: Randolph R. Croxton
• | Publisher: Palustris Press Llc
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 184 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0996117601
• | ISBN-13: 9780996117609