I argue that the male consciousness in humans is quasi-psychotic in the social exchange processes as compared with and due to interaction with the female consciousness.
The female brain processes symbolic social meaning faster and more immediately than in males. This may be due to the larger and more active anterior cingulate gyrus in the female brain as compared with the male brain (see Saniotis and Henneberg 2016, p. 130).
This may give them (females and women) greater empathic virtue(s).
Contrastingly, the male only processes symbolic social meaning at the level of, and registered in, the unconscious/subconscious. It – social symbolic meaning(s) – only rises to conscious awareness through the ensuant reflection of the symbolic meaning of the referential social interaction subsequent to (after) the temporal referential social exchange(s), if at all.
Philosophy, and its sub-branches as the mother of the sciences, is a great tool in dissection and deconstructing social symbolic meaning to assist males to keep pace with the streamlined female brain.
It appears that ‘the slow (male) brained’ philosophy that the female human is the weaker sex, is a poor observer of the emotional intelligence, and often cunning in empathic and social cognition of ‘the opposite sex’!
Bibliography
Henneberg, M and Saniotis, A 2016, The Dynamic Human, Bentham Science Publishers, Sharjah.
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