Well the arguments for animal mind-brains is much stronger. First there is the evolutionary argument, that the mind-brain system must have evolved jus...
Under socially constructed norms, then slavery would have been moral in its time? Essentially morality or ethics becomes absolute moral relativism, a ...
I don't know. As they say when you give people a choice you might not like what they do with it. We have lost diversity in the U.S. as well. Almost ev...
Don't we want (like the Gates Foundation) everyone to lead a happy, healthy and productive life. So shouldn't we defer to the individuals gender ident...
You know I would say American society is failing our students. I think schools and teachers are doing the best they can under current constraints and ...
Well at least now we are talking about "mind" and "neural organisational complexity" instead of just attention and habit.. I think it is a difference ...
Well here I have to side with Apokrisis, we need some experimental (empirical) paradigm to approach the problem. Neuroscience (anatomy, biochemisty, e...
There are "deterministic" interpretations of quantum mechanics. The majority of physicists favor the "statistical in-determinism" interpretations. Qua...
Dogs can neatly "calculate" the trajectory of a tennis ball or a frisbee, as can lions the flight path of a gazelle. Most mental operations never rise...
Perception,memory and response are integrated in the intact organism. It is possible however to show separate neural circuits responsible for the vari...
I fully acknowledge the difficulties in defining the terms "consciousness" or "awareness". I find definitions for "habit" and "attention" equally prob...
That would seem to beg the issue. For "attention" is a feature of the behavior of even fairly primitive creatures, whereas "awareness or consciousness...
Attention- the selective filtering of perceptual information, must have appeared early in evolution of the mind. Most would say "consciousness" made a...
I think the Golden Rule and its variations "do unto others, etc" covers a lot of moral ground for both theists and non theists alike. Or maybe the Uni...
Is "awareness" always "attentional awareness"? What about "blindsight"? Is not our "mind" our "brain" in fact "aware" of (responsive to) many things t...
The education system has not changed much in the last 200-300 years. We still stick "students" in the classroom and have someone lecture at them for 4...
A physician or psychologist does not actually get paid for a diagnosis (DSM5 or ICD10 code). ICD is the International Classification of Diseases, the ...
The DSM-5 (the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) used by the American Psychiatric Association and the Ameri...
Some choose to take hormones.. Some choose to have surgery. Some just choose to change their gender role and others just do nothing. In turns out thos...
Frankly I think grades and salaries are both essential to the stability of society. It is high differentials in salary leading to large income inequal...
Since ones gender identification (psychology) is probably related to brain states (or the physiology and maybe the anatomy of the brain) using the all...
Generally I think we grade to show knowledge of the subject matter. Does one know the names on the continents or countries or states and can place the...
Let's see if we can distinguish between : gender, gender identity and gender roles. It would be nice to separate sexual physical characteristics: peni...
Well language and communication matters. The major reason I am participating in the thread is to try to improve my use of language in this area. The d...
Yes, evolution has seen to it that our "representation" of the world is close enough to ensure our survival and our science has seen to it that we can...
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/11/psychology-transgender.aspx APA: What is the psychological meaning of the term "transgender"? How is it...
I want to go back to the opening post for a moment. "The state of being male or female". One might presume they are talking about sexual or reproducti...
That is just fine with me because I was just asking for clarification and I dont see the rant or the "lying" or the "ignorance" all terms you are empl...
I don't think mental states (feelings, thoughts, emotions) (psychologic) are really separate from brain states (anatomy, physiology). It just depends ...
As I indicated in my very first post the language is a problem. Some people would use gender as a description of your visible sex characteristics (vag...
I am a little confused about how you are using the word "gender" here, which parts of the body determine gender in your view? Are you separating "gend...
I do not mean to advocate for this many gender options (and there seems to be some conflation of gender identity and sexual preference or behavior in ...
Since when does "psychological state" not include the underlying brain, mind, anatomy, neural circuity, neurotransmitters and hormones (physiology) th...
This is a mine field with respect to terminology and it is very easy to attack someone elses use of words without trying to clarify one's own position...
This is not a courtroom, it is a philosophy forum and these types of questions do not lend themselves to a simple yes or no question. I think sexual p...
It is not that simple. I don't wish to give the impression it is solely a matter of choice, and I don't refer to "psychological state" to mean it is n...
I am afraid you need to expound or elaborate on that. People often change their mind (psychological state) over time, especially younger people, about...
People's sexual identity can vary over time, so I think gender not only is not binary but it also represents a psychological state, you are free to di...
You seem to be saying God must be omnipotent and omniscient and that any other conception is not God. You seem to be saying also that Jesus is God in ...
Well many are rejecting the traditional binary sexual or gender identity categories. On facebook one has the following options. The following are the ...
There are the physical features and/or reproductive organs one has which is not always binary (true hermaphrodites, psuedo-hermaphrodites and other va...
just as examples: https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/24588/ Some students at the University of Missouri have called on administrators to remove a stat...
I think to say there is just one God and He/she/it must be omnipotent and omniscient, is fairly dogmatic. In any event I don't think this will be a pr...
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