The following excerpt is from "The Dynamics of Gender and Life" (Draft, as at June 27, 2019).
WHY read this book? ix
Why you might not want to read this book ix
How this book is structured x
Figure 1: The fundamentals of life xi
Easy then, not so much now 1
Section 1: Some helpful tools 3
The KISS-Ockham Tool 3
KEEP IT SIMPLE and SCIENTIFIC 4
The Belief-Habit Cycle 7
Figure 2: The Belief-Habit Cycle 8
Figure 3: Cue: insult. Response: anger 9
Figure 4: Same cue, different response 10
The Belief-Habit Cycle, in more detail 11
Choosing not to choose is still a choice 11
Figure 5: Choices, choosing, chosen 12
Back to belief-systems... 13
Why we choose what we choose 15
Figure 6: Choice of responses 16
Figure 7: For self, for group 17
The right-hemisphere’s ‘Wego’, the left-hemisphere’s ‘Igo’ 18
Why split Ego into ‘Wego’ and ‘Igo’? 21
Figure 8: Wego vs Igo 23
Section 2: Our universe in conversation 24
The SOS Model 24
It’s just us 25
Being limited is good for us. Necessary, in fact 26
Figure 9: To be, or not to be ... naked 27
Figure 10: Inward causation 28
Important consequences of self-organising systems 30
How our brains perceive the SOS 33
Figure 11: Parts and wholes, things and relationships 34
Figure 12: Left-, right- hemisphere perceptions 35
Figure 13: Right-wing focus, left-wing relationships 36
The limitations of left-hemisphere perception 37
Figure 14: The art of forming words 38
The brain as filter and enabler 39
What you don’t know 41
Figure 15: The dual process of left, right-hemispheres 45
Enter the quantum 45
What’s in the gaps? 48
Figure 16: Unlimited to limited, possibilities to actuality 49
Figure 17: Unfolding actuality, enfolding possibility 50
Figure 18: Our refreshing reality 52
Figure 19: Choice, belief, time 53
Figure 20: Barnsley Fern 54
Introduction to the creative process 54
Figure 21: The proCreative cycle 56
Impossible 56
Even so, so what? 59
Time out, recap 60
Opening to possibility 60
Combining the hierarchical (vertical) with the communal (horizontal). 61
Figure 22: Many (possibilities, people). One (individual, result) 62
Figure 23: Unfolding actuality, enfolding possibility 64
Fractals, pre-physical waves and nonlocality 65
Why is the ‘feminine’ correlated with the meta-physical? 68
Deeper forms of ego 71
Figure 24: Ego, Transfinite ego, and ... 71
The interplay of conscious and unconscious 72
Figure 25: Possibility, societal limitations, individual choice 75
Is my transfinite ego (‘soul’), masculine or feminine? 77
Sexing the small bits 79
The SOS and all life is a creating process 85
Figure 26: The dynamic process of Nature 87
Section 3: Real-world application of the SOS model 88
We can know the tip, we cannot ever know the base 88