The second domain we will explore is the **Body**, starting with our **Physiological Configuration (Nature)**, which explores the natural biological differences that shape processing behaviour. Across humans, these **behavioural** differences are most clearly expressed through **sex**, which influences our hormonal patterns, body composition, physical development, and bodily regulation. <div style=" position: relative; padding: 0.75rem 1rem; border-radius: 6px; margin: 1rem 0; background-color: rgba(77, 208, 225, 0.1); overflow: hidden; "> <div style=" position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 10px; background: repeating-linear-gradient( 135deg, #000 0 10px, #FFD600 10px 20px ); "></div> <div style="margin-left: 18px;"> This section is highly theoretical and based largely on personal observation. The ideas presented are provisional, untested, and should be treated as possible patterns rather than established conclusions. </div> </div> --- # First Level Subdivisions The most distinct division within our Physiological Configuration (that appears to affect processing behaviour) is the distinction between **female** and **male** archetypes. It appears that female archetypes lean towards Mental processing through pattern recognition and subjective meaning, while male archetypes lean towards Physical processing through immediate action and sensory identification. <div style="text-align: center;"> <img src="Assets/image(9).png" class="theme-aware" style="width: 70%; height: auto; display: inline-block;" alt="My Diagram" /> </div> <div id="female" class="my-purple" data-canvas-target="female"> <strong>Female Types [Mental]</strong> <p>Female types appear to represent a more mentally interpretive form of processing, where the environment is understood through what something means, why it is happening, and what it may become. They are often more attuned to patterns, emotional shifts, long term consequences, and the connections between separate events. In everyday life, this can appear as noticing when something feels out of place, recognising changes in people’s behaviour, sensing where a situation is heading, or understanding how different factors are shaping the wider context. Rather than first responding to what is immediately present, they may be more likely to interpret the deeper direction of a situation before deciding how to act. </p> </div> <div class="my-purple"> <strong data-canvas-target="male" data-canvas-target="male">Male Types [Physical]</strong> <p> Male types appear to represent a more physically responsive form of processing, where the environment is understood through what is present, what is happening, and what needs to be acted upon. They are often more attuned to immediate conditions, practical demands, physical risk, and direct intervention. In everyday life, this can appear as noticing what needs to be moved, fixed, protected, built, simplified, or responded to quickly. Rather than first interpreting the deeper meaning of a situation, they may be more likely to assess what is concretely happening and what action would most directly improve it. </p> </div> <div style=" border-left: 4px solid #3498DB; background-color: rgba(52, 152, 219, 0.1); padding: 0.75rem; border-radius: 6px; margin: 1rem 0; display: flex; align-items: flex-start; "> <span style="margin-right: 0.5rem; font-size: 1.2em;">💡</span> <div style="flex: 1;"> <p style="margin: 0;">Remember that your Physiological Configuration only makes up 1/6 of your total behavioural codex profiles. So even though your physiological type will deeply affect your behaviour, so will all of your other processing channels. You are much more than just your biological body, nor are you bound by it. </p> </div> </div> --- # Second Level Subdivisions This is where the model becomes more ambiguous and less grounded. I believe that male and female archetypes may then divide into cisgender and transgender expressions. In this context, I am using cisgender to describe general alignment between bodily sex and internal gender identification, and transgender to describe a difference between bodily sex and internal gender identification. A **trans woman** is someone who was assigned male at birth but identifies as female, which within this model may suggest a stronger relationship towards Mental processing. A **trans man** is someone who was assigned female at birth but identifies as male, which within this model may suggest a stronger relationship towards Physical processing. Identity in this context is not something that can be chosen or cognitively changed, but something that is innately built in, just as with cisgender identity. <div style=" border-left: 4px solid #3498DB; background-color: rgba(52, 152, 219, 0.1); padding: 0.75rem; border-radius: 6px; margin: 1rem 0; display: flex; align-items: flex-start; "> <span style="margin-right: 0.5rem; font-size: 1.2em;">💡</span> <div style="flex: 1;"> <p style="margin: 0;">This does not mean cisgender and transgender men/women are different simply because of how they process information. Instead, it suggests that deeper hormonal and biological differences between types appear to contribute to both gender alignment as well as the way Mental/Physical processing dominance is expressed. </p> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img src="Assets/image7.png" class="theme-aware" style="width: 90%; height: auto; display: inline-block;" alt="My Diagram" /> </div> From this development it appears most probable that female and male cisgender types represent **Mental/Mental** and **Physical/Physical** divisions, while transgender types sit between them, representing **Mental/Physical** and **Physical/Mental** divisions. I have created theoretical descriptions for each subdivision type below, using the two processing directions, help from transgender friends, and my own *limited* observations of types, however these currently remain speculative and provisional. **They may also be a product of often more outcast upbringings, and not something internally innate.** - use for voice memo <div class="my-purple"> <strong>Female Types [Mental]</strong> <div class="my-red" data-canvas-target="cisgender-female"> <strong>Cisgender Female [Mental/Mental]</strong> <p> Cisgender female types appear to represent <strong>Mental/Mental</strong> forms of processing, where internal recognition turns towards patterns, cycles, meaning, and long term development. They are often drawn to understanding how people, bodies, environments, resources, and life conditions gradually change, mature, decline, or renew over time. This can appear through sensitivity to timing, seasonal rhythms, bodily states, developmental stages, environmental shifts, and the long term consequences that may unfold from present choices. </p> </div> <div class="my-red" data-canvas-target="transgender-female"> <strong>Transgender Female [Mental/Physical]</strong> <p> Transgender female types appear to represent <strong>Mental/Physical</strong> forms of processing, where internal recognition seeks to become externally aligned. They can be drawn towards making the inner and outer world match, both within themselves and through the roles, relationships, and wider social environments around them. This can appear as a drive to organise social positions, lifestyles, and forms of expression around what feels more natural, accurate, and relationally coherent. </p> </div> </div> <div class="my-purple"> <strong>Male Types [Physical]</strong> <div class="my-red" data-canvas-target="transgender-male"> <strong>Transgender Male [Physical/Mental]</strong> <p>Transgender male types appear to represent <strong>Physical/Mental</strong> forms of processing, where physical reality is observed, analysed, and improved through structure. They can be drawn towards understanding how things work, what they are made from, and how they can be organised into more capable systems. This can appear as a strong focus on function, resources, methods, skill, efficiency, and practical improvement. They may naturally notice how something can be repaired, refined, built, strengthened, or used more effectively. </p> </div> <div class="my-red" data-canvas-target="cisgender-male"> <strong>Cisgender Male [Physical/Physical]</strong> <p> Cisgender male types appear to represent <strong>Physical/Physical</strong> forms of processing, where physical reality is met through direct response. They can be drawn towards what is happening in front of them, what can be acted on, and how conditions can be changed through movement, force, skill, or practical action. This can appear as a strong focus on immediate reality, bodily capability, environmental awareness, physical challenge, and direct problem solving. They may naturally process life through doing, testing, building, protecting, adapting, and responding to what directly exists. </p> </div> </div> <div style=" position: relative; padding: 0.75rem 1rem; border-radius: 6px; margin: 1rem 0; background-color: rgba(77, 208, 225, 0.1); overflow: hidden; "> <div style=" position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 10px; background: repeating-linear-gradient( 135deg, #000 0 10px, #FFD600 10px 20px ); "></div> <div style="margin-left: 18px;"> All cisgender and transgender types are not bound by or limited to descriptions. As mentioned, all ideas are provisional, untested, and may be far from the entire truth for how hormones influence behaviour. All content at this stage should be treated as theoretical discussions as opposed to logical fact. </div> </div> <details> <summary style="font-weight:600; font-size:1.1em; cursor:pointer;"> Are Trans People Real? </summary> <br> <div style=" clear: both; display: block; width: fit-content; border-left: 4px solid #FFA500; background-color: rgba(255, 165, 0, 0.1); padding: 0.75rem; border-radius: 6px; margin: 1rem 0; "> Yes! </div> Being transgender is not something that people can consciously change. It reflects a natural aspect of human creation, rooted in very real biological and neurological processes. <div style=" clear: both; display: block; float: right; width: fit-content; border-right: 4px solid #008000; background-color: rgba(0, 128, 0, 0.1); padding: 0.75rem; border-radius: 6px; margin: 1rem; "> So what causes it? </div> <div style=" clear: both; display: block; width: fit-content; border-left: 4px solid #FFA500; background-color: rgba(255, 165, 0, 0.1); padding: 0.75rem; border-radius: 6px; margin: 1rem 0; "> Firstly, hormones. </div> Prenatal exposure to sex hormones, especially testosterone, plays a central role in shaping gender related traits, both through the amount of exposure, timing, and the body's resultant sensitivity. Cis and trans females have less exposure and are less responsive to testosterone, cis and trans males have more exposure and are more responsive to testosterone. This is measured pre birth and does not need to include external adjustments such as hormone therapy or drug prescription, with cis males typically having the highest testosterone responsiveness and cis females having the lowest.<br> <br> Certain areas of the brain are also sexually dimorphic meaning that they develop differently based on sex. For example the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis is heavily involved in sexual identity, behaviours and stress response, and are found to be larger in cis and trans males, and smaller in cis and trans females. MRI scans also show that cortical connectivity and activation patterns are frequently similar between cis and trans females, and between cis and trans males accordingly, through brain activity governing internal stability of the body, body dissociation, social cognition and emotional processing.<br> <br> These are only just the fundamentals and clinical research is only getting stronger as time goes on. </details> --- # Third Level Subdivisions <div style=" position: relative; padding: 0.75rem 1rem; border-radius: 6px; margin: 1rem 0; background-color: rgba(77, 208, 225, 0.1); overflow: hidden; "> <div style=" position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 10px; background: repeating-linear-gradient( 135deg, #000 0 10px, #FFD600 10px 20px ); "></div> <div style="margin-left: 18px;"> I am currently unsure how the behavioural patterns for our <strong>Physiological Configuration</strong> may transition in the third level of subdivision. <br><br> However, one pattern that seems to hold some amount of weight is through differences in sexual orientation, where each cisgender and transgender type is divided through an additional Mental/Physical division, depending on whether they are <strong>heterosexual</strong> or <strong>homosexual</strong>. <img src="Assets/image5.png" class="theme-aware" alt="My Diagram"> In this model heterosexual types would exit through the same processing direction as their first level subdivision type, while homosexual types would exit through the opposing processing direction to their first level subdivision type. This means that heterosexual cisgender and transgender male types would exit through Physical processing, [P/P/P] and [P/M/P], and that homosexual cisgender and transgender male types would exit through Mental processing [P/P/M] and [P/M/M]. <br><br> The biggest issue with this claim however, is that while some homosexual male and female people appear to more clearly follow opposite Mental/Physical processing directions in comparison to their heterosexual counterparts, other homosexual people are much harder to differentiate between, if they differ at all. If this pattern only applies to <em>some</em> homosexual types, then sexual orientation may not represent the third level subdivision. Instead, it may belong to a later subdivision, reflect a separate processing pattern entirely, or only partially relate to the Mental/Physical structure proposed. <br><br> <div style=" border-left: 4px solid #3498DB; background-color: rgba(52, 152, 219, 0.1); padding: 0.75rem; border-radius: 6px; margin: 1rem 0; display: flex; align-items: flex-start; "> <span style="margin-right: 0.5rem; font-size: 1.2em;">💡</span> <div style="flex: 1;"> <p style="margin: 0;"> Note that I am not claiming that sexuality, sex, or gender directly cause these processing differences. Rather, I am suggesting that the deeper mechanisms influencing sexuality, sex, and gender appear to also shape how Mental/Physical processing is expressed. </p> </div> </div> <br> I have attached a provisional layout for how heterosexual and homosexual type descriptions could look below, however as mentioned, these are incomplete and should not be treated as final or reliable. <br><br> </p> <div class="my-red"> <strong>Cisgender Female [Mental/Mental]</strong> <div class="my-orange" data-canvas-target="heterosexual-cisgender-female"> <strong>Heterosexual Cisgender Female [M/M/M]</strong> <p> Naturally dominant in Layer 8. Naturally weaker in Layer 1. </p> </div> <div class="my-orange" data-canvas-target="homosexual-cisgender-female"> <strong>Homosexual Cisgender Female [M/M/P]</strong> <p> Naturally dominant in Layer 7. Naturally weaker in Layer 2. </p> </div> </div> <div style="height: 0.1rem;"></div> <div class="my-red" > <strong>Transgender Female [Mental/Physical]</strong> <div class="my-orange" data-canvas-target="heterosexual-transgender-female"> <strong>Heterosexual Transgender Female [M/P/M]</strong> <p> Naturally dominant in Layer 6. Naturally weaker in Layer 3. </p> </div> <div class="my-orange" data-canvas-target="homosexual-transgender-female"> <strong>Homosexual Transgender Female [M/P/P]</strong> <p> Naturally dominant in Layer 5. Naturally weaker in Layer 4. </p> </div> </div> <div style="height: 0.1rem;"></div> <div class="my-red"> <strong>Transgender Male [Physical/Mental]</strong> <div class="my-orange" data-canvas-target="homosexual-transgender-male"> <strong>Homosexual Transgender Male [P/M/M]</strong> <p> Naturally dominant in Layer 4. Naturally weaker in Layer 5. </p> </div> <div class="my-orange" data-canvas-target="heterosexual-transgender-male"> <strong>Heterosexual Transgender Male [P/M/P]</strong> <p> Naturally dominant in Layer 3. Naturally weaker in Layer 6. </p> </div> </div> <div style="height: 0.1rem;"></div> <div class="my-red"> <strong>Cisgender Male [Physical/Physical]</strong> <div class="my-orange" data-canvas-target="homosexual-cisgender-male"> <strong>Homosexual Cisgender Male [P/P/M]</strong> <p> Naturally dominant in Layer 2. Naturally weaker in Layer 7. </p> </div> <div class="my-orange" data-canvas-target="heterosexual-cisgender-male"> <strong>Heterosexual Cisgender Male [P/P/P]</strong> <p> Naturally dominant in Layer 1. Naturally weaker in Layer 8. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="canvas-grid"> <div class="canvas-card level-1"> <strong>Physiological Configuration [Body]</strong> <div class="canvas-grid"> <div class="canvas-card level-2"> <strong>Female Types [Mental]</strong> <div class="canvas-grid"> <div class="canvas-card level-3"> <strong>Cisgender Female [M/M]</strong> <div class="canvas-grid"> <div class="canvas-card level-4"> <strong>Heterosexual Cis Female<br>[M/M/M] - Layer 8</strong> </div> <div class="canvas-card level-4"> <strong>Homosexual Cis Female<br>[M/M/P] - Layer 7</strong> </div> </div> </div> <div class="canvas-card level-3"> <strong>Transgender Female [M/P]</strong> <div class="canvas-grid"> <div class="canvas-card level-4"> <strong>Heterosexual Trans Female<br>[M/P/M] - Layer 6</strong> </div> <div class="canvas-card level-4"> <strong>Homosexual Trans Female<br>[M/P/P] - Layer 5</strong> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="canvas-card level-2"> <strong>Male Types [Physical]</strong> <div class="canvas-grid"> <div class="canvas-card level-3"> <strong>Transgender Male [P/M]</strong> <div class="canvas-grid"> <div class="canvas-card level-4"> <strong>Homosexual Trans Male<br>[P/M/M] - Layer 4</strong> </div> <div class="canvas-card level-4"> <strong>Heterosexual Trans Male<br>[P/M/P] - Layer 3</strong> </div> </div> </div> <div class="canvas-card level-3"> <strong>Cisgender Male [P/P]</strong> <div class="canvas-grid"> <div class="canvas-card level-4"> <strong>Homosexual Cis Male<br>[P/P/M] - Layer 2</strong> </div> <div class="canvas-card level-4"> <strong>Heterosexual Cis Male<br>[P/P/P] - Layer 1</strong> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <span class="nav-buttons">[[4.3 Psychological Rebalance|« Back]] [[5.2 Physiological Imbalance (Nurture)|Next »]]</span>