Re: Gender and Cognitive Style

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Nov 21 1998 - 10:14:44 MST


Anders Sandberg wrote:

> Men have on average a thicker corpus calossum than women, but since
> female brains are smaller than male brains the relative size of the CC
> in relation to the language areas is larger in women...

when asked if women should be astronauts, marvin minsky gave the
wonderfully evasive answer that all astronauts should be female, for
women have a higher intellegence to weight ratio... {8^D

regarding our earlier discussion on "tinkerbellizing" do the standard
notions on brain function explain why lions and house cats display
the same kinds of intelligence, in spite of an order of magnitude
 ratio in their brain sizes? spike



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