Fullminders
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In the first
century A.T. it was discovered
that the average human brain had a number of gender-related abilities.
However, there was wide variation amongst humans with many females
being skilled in 'male' areas and vice versa, apparently dependent upon
testosterone levels in different parts of the brain during its
development. This is not the same as sexual preference, but instead is
entirely based on the degree of possession of certain brain functions.
As it became possible to modify the human brain to have new abilities,
it was soon proposed that a modification to give its recipient all of
the advantages to be gained by the possession of both masculine and
feminine brain structures.
Although first proposed in the first century A.T., this modification
was not successfully implemented until some centuries later. As it was
introduced it became known as the Fullminder modification, because
those promoting or possessing it considered it to give its recipients a
full set of mental abilities rather than the subset possessed by
baseline humans. From the feminine side the Fullminder gains abilities
such as empathy, multi-tasking and acute and wide-ranging sensory
abilities, while from the masculine they gain such things as
visio-spatial skills, competitiveness and systemising skills.
Since it was first introduced the Fullminder modification (so named
because its proponents insist that only those with it have a fully
functioning mind) has spread widely, particularly into entities are the
Su level and above, although it is also widely spread across the nearbaseline
human population.
As a side effect of the Fullminder modification, although they have
physical genders, Fullminders do not have the small average innate
differences, mostly in terms of preferred activities, that exist
between baseline human girls and boys. The cultures they exist in
sometimes have biases towards these differences, but most Fullminders
have a culture that works to counteract these influences in themselves.
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Non-biont entities such as Vecs and AIs are often the equivalent of
Fullminders. Although in their cases the mental functions are not
gender-linked as such, they are still useful abilities to have.
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SWITCHMINDERS
A group of variants of the Fullminder modification where, rather than
possessing both masculine and feminine brain functions all of the time,
the Switchminder can consciously control
where on the
masculine-feminine axis different areas of their brain functionality
lie at a given time.
Some Switchminders can control not just their current location on these
axes, but also the extent
of their current mental functionality along
them. This allows them to have brain functionality all the way from
that of a Fullminder (covering the entire range of functionality all at
once) to that of a baseline human (with functionality only at a
specific point along the masculine-feminine axis).
