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You are both asking for dogma which runs the risk of invalidating and erasing transgender persons. Dogma is authoritative – as if only it is the truth...

I was arguing your use of the word "want"

Let's first focus on this - reducing the need for authenticity to a "want." You seem to imply that transgender persons are somehow selfish should thei...

This is disingenuous. How the language is used will decide if it is a weapon or not used against transgender persons.

Hmm ... interesting. The thought that comes to my mind is that none of us live in absolute isolation. My brain operates in a loop intimately connected...

This immediately made me think of the balance of opposites we find in this world. I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but various selves...

I'm not sure. It doesn't sound right, does it? Agreed. I would say that discrimination is never reasonable? Although I am not quite sure what you mean...

then the independent variable would be "autism/non-autism" and the dependent variable would be the incidence of transgenderism Let's look at this agai...

And your theory is? here's the thing - why is a scientific theory need to believe people when they tell us who they are? Yes, science marches on, but ...

I suppose, but like all neurological responses, they begin with sensory input But why would you want to see this: Herein lies your misunderstanding. B...

I could never understand the obsession with the need to have a rigid definition of "man" and "woman." As if the fate of humanity rested upon it. Can't...

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Yes, he is that petty, and egocentric. According to reporting from the Washington Post, Trump is not installing the legally-elected Machado because sh...

It would be a shock to the system but not unexpected from Trump

I'm not a fraidy-cat person, but I fear for the precarious position the world is currently in. Gangsters are in charge. I'm Canadian, and though it wo...

From an article linked to the one you linked - "But the assumption that forcefully overthrowing the current government will lead to a smooth transitio...

My guess is that he has them lined up already, since he has stated an agreement publicly. But your point is taken - it will be quite the unstable set ...

Governance and policy are inconveniences, minor details, (as are people affected) that Trump is not interested in. At home, he leaves that stuff to Vo...

Putin, Xi Jinping, Trump The day after USA took Venezuela, this is what Trump said to Fox news - "We have to do it again. We can do it again, too. Nob...

There doesn't seem to be any plan for exactly how they are going to "run" Venezuela. Apparently, there is no plan to install the rightfully-elected. S...

Whose plan is it? The way I understand it, Putin, Xi JInping and Trump are in a quid pro quo threesome, each concerned with their own imperialist goal...

There’s a plan in place to carve the world up into three superpowers. In George Orwell’s 1984, the author envisaged such a world run by Oceania, Euras...

Thank you for that. I respectfully hold a different point-of-view on the matter (pun intended). "Reduce" is a funny word. I rather think of the functi...

This interpretation misses a key point - it neglects the artist and the receiver of art, on who Tolstoy's focus was. A painting is merely matter, but ...

No.

Art is in the eye of the beholder In this case, seen through the prism of the reader's experience

Well, Mary would probably be excluded from the study. Why does this matter?

I guess so. Sorry, I don't understand the purpose of these questions in the context of this discussion.

Sounds like Mary is either delusional or lying. Brain trauma can interfere with the emotional response, but that would manifest in physical symptoms, ...

If you read the entirety of my post, you'll better understand my position. Besides, I'm not a neurobiologist

Well, here is a link to the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale DASS-42 test to see how you're feeling https://www.healthfocuspsychology.com.au/tools...

Levine opens Chapter Four, The Explanatory Gap, in Consciousness with this - “We want to know not only that such-and-such is the case, but also why it...

From what I have read, one important aspect of Derrida’s position was to question the traditional view that speech has presence over writing. He terme...

Are you suggesting there are not ways to determine how a person feels?

I went to watch the video and got this message: Video unavailable This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this v...

Sometimes I think about the millions of years of happenstance that led to my being born here and now. My existence depends on uncountable events that ...

Yes, for sure - and in fact true of all of science still today ... from the systemic inquiry of the ancient Greeks, to the introduction of controlled ...

If you are going to talk science, a basic respect for its terminology is warranted. Your posts have been ambiguous. The OP asks for the “presuppositio...

You disagree with the generally accepted use of the words "phase" and 'form" in science? It describes the state of physics knowledge in 1900.

Metaphysics is not a science.

Neuroscientific investigation has a whole battery of tests to measure emotion. That's outside the purview of this discussion.

I don't think you can talk about "presuppositions" when enquiring into the state of scientific knowledge, which is necessarily based on evidence colle...

So far. I want to reiterate - that when science speaks of a "problem" they are referring to something that needs further research.

Good quote. Thanks for sharing it. I enjoyed reading it. And no, neuroscience hasn't solved the hard problem yet. I want to note that the way the word...

To the extent that you’ll not see the word “true” in a scientific paper, this is accurate. The most that a scientific paper will claim is that “this i...

Not in all of us. ;) A side note - something I read in the Aeon article linked by Wayfarer - ‘I refute it thus,’ said the 18th-century writer Samuel J...

I don't think the scientific consensus can be reduced to common sense, but anyway.... I wonder why this is so threatening to some people? A very inter...

That my brain controls my heartbeat is not an argument against it producing my consciousness. My brain does many things. Right. One is structure, one ...

@Wayfarer I took this as an invitation to go back and read the OP once again (there was no mention of the time dimension) – and I thank you for that. ...

I understand. But, if my reaction to Trump is to hate him, then I have allowed Trump to change me. I don't want to give him that kind of power over me...