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I'm not sure I would use the word "pre-determined" when talking about brain development. But, it may be said that brain development is influenced by g...

Good answer! It is certainly possible.

This is interesting, the way you have framed it. Of course, humans first had to evolve the ability to know, or make inferences, about minds other than...

These two accusations contradict one another. Which one was it? No, it wasn't. Anyway, please share with me now and I will try to make it more underst...

That's funny, when it was you two who were confused by a simple post. I'm born-and-raised in Canada. I asked you if you had any questions and you didn...

I'm not sure I understand the meaning of the word "pre-determined" in this context. Your identity is produced by all the thought processes of the brai...

Thank you! that means a lot

(I'm trying to avoid making that old joke about men doing most of their thinking with the smaller of their heads, but, anyway...) If you are alone in ...

Wow. This philosophy is strange, to say the least. Transgender people are not evolving fish. Medical practitioners do not go to the transgender person...

yes, it can be done with fMRI - scans of brain activity https://www.nibib.nih.gov/news-events/newsroom/new-artificial-intelligence-model-identifies-br...

Oh, dear, then all the following medical associations are absurd and childish, since they have all put our statements firmly in favour of gender-affir...

The female brain does develop differently from the male brain. This is well established by science, and we see the differences in our own personal exp...

What part of this do you not understand: but insofar as transgender persons are concerned it is more accurately referred to as their identity. And wha...

I have fully explained it up-thread, and it's my guess that it's not a lack of understanding that is blocking you, but rather a lack of acceptance.

A person's identity is not produced by their ovaries or their testes but by their brains. All your perceptions, all your interpretations, all your emo...

A delusion is characterized by a false reality. Here is Google's explanation of a delusion: Delusions happen when the brain misinterprets experiences,...

That quote says no more than that there are male and female brains

I've never said this. If you go to the top of this page you will see my post:

All I can suggest is to read it again and feel free to ask me questions about it.

This presents as a misunderstanding of the information I have shared. This presents as passive-aggressive. My posts are well enough organized.

As I explained - mistaking a reality for a delusion I'm not sure what differences you might expect to see? Could you please provide your source? Male ...

I understand better now, thank you for explaining. However, as I mentioned, this is not the path that this takes me on. And I don't think I am alone i...

No, it's the reality of who you are. using this as a corollary of transgenderism is unsound reasoning - a logical fallacy - since thinking you are one...

This has not been my experience. I recognize that reality may consist of planes that I am unable to detect, but I believe they would be as "natural" a...

No, but it is also not evidence that what we experience is all there is. We evolved as these creatures with a finite set of senses. Our reality consis...

The left wing is not intolerant. They are not telling anyone how to live their lives. Only the right wing does that. They have the more rigid ideology...

I'm coming late to the party, and only read through the first page, and was compelled to respond. I read of gender being referred to as an "expression...

My God is the God of Einstein, who said his God was the God of Spinoza. In a word, pantheism. The concept that of all of the universe is God, that all...

The idea that art does not have to be beautiful actually predates Picasso. Tolstoy spent an entire chapter of his work What is Art? https://www.gutenb...

There is also symmetry in movement. I love to swim, and when I mentioned to my doctor how good it makes me feel, not just physically but mentally, she...

There is symmetry in music. Listen to Bach’s Prelude in C Major (2:44 min) and enjoy the symmetry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frxT2qB1POQ

A thought. The most important, the most consequential, is faith in yourself. Believing that you can do it - whatever it is.

No, I wouldn’t say that. We are clearly in bodies. And it is because we are in bodies that we have a reality.

Our experiences are our reality. Consider that the objective reality is made up of aggregations of atoms and molecules that do not have any colour. We...

I'm a big believer in subjective reality. My reality is different from yours. And since eagles, turtles, bees and shrimp see more and different colour...

So, what you have described here is a causal chain. And cause is not the same thing as effect. So, what you are looking at is this first two steps: Su...

In your title, you ask what is the (true) meaning of beauty. That requires we know what is true! But we have to settle for a subjective truth, because...

It may, but often does not. I think we have different definitions of what constitutes “action.” Action actually means doing something, not just thinki...

That is because they did not stop with self-reflection. Self-reflection by itself is not action, and does not cause action. In his book, How People Ch...

Self-reflection can only lead to changes in ourselves. If our emotional burnout results from watching the suffering of others, over which we have no p...

You are conflating the belief in an imaginary, supernatural being with the sum total of all cause-and-effect manifestations in existence.

I can't think there is any "ought" to emotions. They just are. They don't follow a design, but are instinctual reactions to what we experience around ...

I think this may be answered by looking at it in the context of our evolving ability to think in terms of cause and effect, to make sense of the conse...

Hmm … thinking about this. A person’s history and circumstances might after all be considered an objective truth. What do you believe was the purpose ...

Whoops! Corrected. Thanks. Oh, I see you edited your answer to add "objective." Well, yes, in that case. But subjective truth is true. We each of us h...

I don’t see any reason why it should be an either/or situation. Why can’t we teach both? And – what do you mean by “include diverse cultures?” Include...

Of course we should celebrate peace! At the same time, we must not forget the horrors of what has gone on in the past. "Those who forget the past are ...

That honor is bestowed on the person who has wielded the greatest influence "for good or for ill."

Thank you, yes. We tend to think of science as a pursuit of analytical thinking, but of course creativity and imagination are required, too. Here’s an...

The stimulation of and the processing by the following brain structures involved in theory of mind functioning: Functional neuroimaging and structural...