…not exactly, but close.
Where we differ is that my understanding is that the development of male and female brain differences is destined to occur and that the process through which they occur is a natural one, as explained in this comment (previous to the one to which you are responding):
I am essentially claiming that although male and female brains may not be fundamentally different at birth, they are destined to become fundamentally different because experiences are delivered via bodies that have fundamental differences. The brain differences are produced through a natural progression that begins with natural anatomic differences and ends when those differences lead to different brain structures through the mechanism of plasticity.
You seem to be implying that the differences are artificially imposed, whereas I consider them to be a natural development.
Or, as it was deftly stated by a previous commenter, Swcman:
“We have a consciousness that is distributed over our entire being.”
From your original article:
“In other words, they don’t identify whether the differences are due to nature or nurture.”
Nurture and nature are not distinct categories. Nurture is nature.
Social structure is created through interaction. Humans are naturally predisposed, as a result of evolutionary forces, to interact with one another. The interaction that produces social structure is itself produced by nature.
I am not convinced that genetically produced differences between male and female brains are entirely non-existent. I am undecided with regard to that issue.
I cannot agree with the tabula rasa framework because of the flaws I cited in my previous comment (cited above).
