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A Writer Comments...
Hi Melanie --
Appreciate the time you took clarifying Male &
Female perceptions of time and space. Now, if you have time for another question... What
is the difference between a female mental sex way of viewing the world and an animal's way
of viewing the world? To use your (lovely) blustery-day-big-puffy-clouds example, wouldn't
a kitty cat get a sense of the flavor of the day without thinking about or being aware of
any patterns? Wouldn't changes in acceleration affect the kitty cat's energy level?
I imagine this kitty cat getting playful, or
frightened, or purring. It's a fun thought so early in the morning.
Take care,
Mark
Melanie Replies...
Yep, you've got the right idea about cats. And, in fact,
dogs are much more male mental sex as a species. Returning to the idea that (to the extent
we can see from our position INSIDE the universe) Space and Time form a continuum, then we
not that this continuum might be looked at as a railroad track. The track from Space to
Time is divided off in railroad ties. The perceptive "bandwidth" of any
individual human can be represented as a box car of slightly differing lengths, averaging
around seven ties long.
Now, that means that the average human sees only seven
"ties" worth of the Space/Time continuum at any given moment (point in time
along the track). But, if the individual focuses or diverts attention more toward space,
the box car will move along the track in that direction. So, although the car will still
only span seven ties, the portion of the track occupied will be more toward the spatial
side than the temporal.
Male and female mental sex are like two different box cars,
linked together. Since they don't occupy the same position on the single track, one is
more toward a spatial view and the other more toward a temporal. In any given
environmental situation (position on the track), the male car will be more toward space,
the female more toward time, but the two slightly overlapping where they link.
Up and down the track they move, each capable of seeing the
same sights and getting to the same places, but never at the same moment.
Now, imagine a second and a third track running along side
the first one. Each of these other two tracks is running in the same direction (say, Left
to Right) as the first track, but they start at a different point to the Left and end at a
different point to the right.
If Space is to the Left, then the Cat track will start a
bit further to the Right (Time) and end a bit further to the Right than the Human track.
This means that although Humans and Cats will run in parallel along portions of their
natural route, Cats will also extend farther toward Time than the Humans. As a result, the
Center of the Cat track, will be farther to the Right (Time) than the center of the Human
track, and as the cars move back and forth, Cats, on the average as a species, will seem
more toward the Female Mental Sex side (Time) compared to Humans. Similarly, the Dog track
is a bit more, overall, toward the Left (Space) side, and therefore Dogs, as a species, on
the average, will seem to be more Male Mental Sex than Humans, as a group.
Another notable difference among the species, is that while
Human box cars may span seven ties on the track, Cat and Dog cars may span only perhaps
four. This means that the "resolution" by which Cats and Dogs perceive their
environment (and themselves) is less detailed (narrower bandwidth) than it is with Humans,
even though we all share the same perspectives. This is why dogs seem so simple in their
emotional responses, and cats so simple in their logic.
Dogs, being more Male Mental Sex as a species, have an edge
in logic, masking the narrower bandwidth, but since their box car is not as wide, the
emotional response is double whammied. The reverse is true for Cats.
Well, hopefully this little analogy might help people avoid
having one track minds, eh what?
Melanie
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