Harry Hindu

As a determinist, I don't see us being controlled by our genes, or trying to transcend our genetic coding. What we do or think is determined by our ge...

Yet their innate gender identity is conforming to the binary gender system. I pointed this out in the OP.

Yes, yes. We've already moved past that part. This is the assumption that the OP challenges. It is now up to you to move the ball forward with a new a...

This is probably the result of your limited and subjective understanding of reproduction. Reproduction is more than just sex. It also takes the rearin...

But if gender is socially constructed, then gender isn't something that they have a choice in swapping for themselves. It would only be within the pow...

Right, which is why I already pointed out in the same post (because I predicted that you'd make that argument and tried to head you off) that you seem...

The OP is the response to your claims. Because you didn't read it you don't get that. I would simply suggest that readers go back and read the OP in i...

and what you said is cherry-picking and incoherent, so I'm not interested.

and to think that you'd get a response is just a waste of your own time.

It's obvious that you didn't read the OP or any of the articles therein. Another rule in this thread is read the entire post before responding, and tr...

I never claimed to be a direct realist or indirect realist. I'm only showing what they would claim and how it really isn't any different than what the...

You're mixing apples and oranges. We don't experience god like we do rocks. We don't experience minds like we do rocks either. We experience rocks dir...

No, I didn't. Go back and read and stop being in such a hurry. I'm leaving now and will come back and reply to a post of yours that addresses what I h...

No. How about you take the time to absorb what I asked and have said and then you take the time to write a response.

And I asked you to elaborate. You are the only one skipping things.

Can you please elaborate and answer the questions I posed.

Of course I do. People are aware of cause and effect, and therefore aware of meanings. I'm the one saying that meaning exists in AND outside of minds....

And that is what I keep pointing out - that you have a synonym to refer to the mind/not-mind distinction, but no equivalent synonym to refer to the pl...

And what I'll keep telling you and you keep ignoring is that you are making a distinction that you don't make with all the other things in the univers...

Then I don't see how they are really saying anything different other than using two different terms to refer to what stimulates our senses - "material...

You imply it with the application of your terms and the fact that you don't have alternate terms that refer to planet/non-planet, star/non-star, rock/...

How does this species know that they aren't part of some simulation themselves? What would a real world be like vs a digital world? Another wild hypot...

Yes you are. You are saying that mind's deserve a special term that distinguishes their uniqueness from everything else. Planets are just as unique as...

We do all the time. Whenever you talk about something that isn't a planet you'd be referring to that property of reality that is non-planet.

Right, and we went over this in the previous thread where we discussed this. I thought you had something different for this discussion. You are making...

I'm not quite clear on your distinction here.

So "objective" is a relationship between brains and "subjective" is a property of an individual brain?

That is a common tactic of his, but at least he is trying to defend his definitions with me at the moment.

Right, and I said: and you didn't answer.

That isn't what I said. Remember how I defined the difference between objective and subjective for you in another thread? I'm one of the few people on...

And "subjective" would be an objective feature of reality being a function of minds, which are an objective feature of reality. How is that I am able ...

Right, and planets are objective things that exist independently of not just minds, but everything else. Your mind is external to mine and is therefor...

Do you mean that Joe uses meaning like a tool - something that exists independent of his mind?

I don't understand the question. Can you rephrase?

That's indirect realism.

The contradiction is believing that their are external minds, but not external rocks when we basically have the same access or information to both. Id...

The mods are oppressing trans people. I am a trans person and they are using definitions that oppress me and blocking my free speech rights to say so.

and that, Baden is pleading to authority. Again, I ask you to use lay your emotions aside and use your logic. Scientific definitions aren't written in...

Did I not point out the inconsistency? Why can't you defend it? You posted it and are agreeing with it so you must know how to defend it.

No it means to not treat people unequally based on their gender/sex. We have that and is what I and Hanover has argued, but you are willfully ignorant...

My explanation wasn't complicated at all. It was an explanation about the implications of your own definition - something you don't seem to think abou...

Looks like something you need to read and reflect on, Baden. As I have shown, it is you, unenlightened, andrew and fdrake who are oppressing trans peo...

If we aren't using the same definitions then we are simply talking past each other, which is a waste of my time. See my reply to andrew on this page. ...

What is a stereotype of not the idea, or a belief, that a person has? Stereotypes don't exist independent of people's minds, so it would be an attack ...

Well, it wasn't in the form of a question. It did make a direct statement that "gender" hasn't been defined as anything coherent or consistent. Thank ...

Whats the difference? I've asked this several times. If was so easy and obvious then why can't anyone answer the question? But a transgender woman (a ...

I think I have firm grasp of language as I have been able accumulate 1.7k posts without much of a problem. The only problem I seem to be having is wit...

Mine wasn't an aruement from hypocrisy. I'm saying that the application of his arguement is inconsistent. He's essentially preaching to the choir. Thi...

No. Nature and the fact that you have a penis, which is different than a woman, who has a vagina, is what allows you all to be equally men.