Transgender women are men. Caitlyn Jenner produced six children with "his" sperm and acknowledges being their father Anyone claiming to be living as t...
There is a limit to what I want to say about disorders of sexual development but no one is opposing these people as far as I can see anywhere. They ar...
There are no true human hermaphrodites as far as I am aware. Disorders of sexual development only occur in males and females. Usually in one sex alone...
The existential threat is to the truth and the honest use of language. Making everyone lie about reality for a minority. Gas lighting us that if we se...
I do not see why men should be able to legally identify as women and access women spaces. I can't think of another case where we impose this kind of f...
I am personally perpetually single. So I am not currently being in a situation where I could encounter a gay trans man. But lesbian apps have been inu...
Your position on religion would make more sense if I was defending religion, promoting childhood indoctrination which I absolutely oppose and if I was...
I don't think people should be able to participate in surgeon assisted genital mutilation. There was the German case of a cannibal victim who consente...
A lot of people in religions grew up in it and had no choice. Circumcision I would happily outlaw but it does not make you infertile or do major damag...
Detransitioners prove that you can be wrong about your gender identity. There are no reliable studies in transition regret. The harm of being wrong is...
I think philosophy and social studies have played a substantial role in this by attacking the notion of truth. They make ludicrous exaggerated claims ...
You said you find Islamic child marriage more horrifying this. Now you seem to be mocking the reality of irreversible genital mutilation of gay, austi...
There are several gay men on YouTube now who talk about the regret and pain of having themselves castrated and their penises removed due to internalis...
This is an existential issue. There is now something like a war (for reality) going on. About preserving the truth and bodily integrity and mass co-oe...
No. This is about normalising the idea that people can change sex, can be born in the wrong body that there are 100's of valid gender identities. This...
The problem with consciousness could be the same problem as "Why does anything exist at all?" Even if you reduce problems to the concept of matter, at...
What does reality being "ordered" mean? Is this order inherent in everything we perceive or are you referring to the hypothesised laws of physics incl...
Unless I have misread this this seems inherently problematic. You are going to be diagnosing mental disorders based on how closely someone's words or ...
I don't think consciousness being fundamental or emergent works but I can't over another view point. It seems like it emerges from the brain without u...
I think language also contains thoughts which may be visual and conceptual in nature. So that words don't just mean something explicit but work in clo...
I define consciousness as awareness. It's a perspective and something that entails the self. I am the subject of experiences from a unique perspective...
I think some skepticism is just incredulity which is more of an attitude or emotion than reason. To justify a skeptical statement it seems one has to ...
I think the idea that some things are eternal is nerve wracking. Infinities are intimidating. Infinite space. Infinite time. Infinite divisibility. It...
This kind of issue is usually infected by people's biases. People always seem to be trying to preserve their own worldview which for some people is ra...
I feel that emergent properties must already be dispositions of reality. For example water is never going to spontaneously turn into chocolate because...
No. I think personal experience is a rich source of knowledge. But it can be subject to other peoples skepticism. There is an issue it seems however c...
My issue is that I know I have vivid mental states like dreams which I have every night that have phenomenal content. Including dreams about dead peop...
I am aware of different arguments in cognitive science and the Philosophy of mind. And there is a huge number of papers from various perspectives. Amo...
I think that skepticism about other peoples mental states is on weak ground because we only have private access to our own. So I think some skepticism...
My point is that just by successfully using any language you have disproven fundamental skepticism and proven a form of certainty. Any skepticism foll...
I think that any language you don't speak fails to convey meaning. For example urdu conveys no meaning to me. But to communicate here we have to have ...
I am referring to lanaguage like directions, describing things, or information like "the house is on fire" that only succeed if the language is unambi...
I think that the computer analogy works dependent on how much you think consciousness is involved in a process. Some people go to the extreme of no fr...
What I mean is that we can test what someone claims with empirical evidence to test the truth value of a sentence. Lies do not undermine the system be...
It could be quite. There are rare cases of Photographic memory which is apparently fairly unpleasant because you do what to forget some things. But on...
That does seem to follow. I don't not consider things I think or perceive to be me. It seems you must have to differentiate between yourself and input...
I don't think the problem is the storage of the memory but the phenomenal access to mental content. A machine could place something in a box and retri...
My issue is that we clearly have (or at least I do) vivid mental states including beliefs like "Paris is the capital of France" and images of an exter...
There are phantoms pains. People experience pain in a missing limb. This what suggest pain is all in the brain. There is Congenital insensitivity pain...
This is what I think has to happen with consciousness and self. There are billions of humans but becoming conscious makes you become aware of being on...
I think the self perspective is invoked when it comes to things like taste and sound. We can both eat the same cake and one thinks it tastes nice the ...
It doesn't make sense to attribute mental states like my memory of my grandmother or my belief that 2 + 2 = 4 to the whole of my body or a function. B...
I am conscious of my body. But I can lose substantial parts of my body and remain fully conscious. You can lose one hemisphere of your brain and remai...
Years ago when I first started thinking about this only thing I found reflecting my thoughts was "Why am I me" by Scott Bidstrup who seems to have die...
180 proof claimed memories were not phenomena. Well as I mentioned my memories are vivid and have a lot of detail (that might be referred to as qualia...
What function do the memories of my brother serve. Or what function does my earliest memory of having a cold and being in a pram sucking a cough sweet...
It seems every individual distinct thing like each snowflake has a unique identity but most of them do not appear to have a self or a conscious perspe...
I think memory loss is relevant to this issue. On the one hand we all seem to lose most of our memories. So that we live for thousands of days but cou...
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