Harry Hindu

Which is to say that gender as a social construction is sexism. Which also means that to change gender, or to be gender fluid, would mean you would ne...

Ok, Michael the Eliminative Materialst. That's why I spoke about freedom in degrees - as in more options the more freedom. I would say that having onl...

I other words the concept does exist in nature. Mankind is a natural outcome of natural processes. Everything humans do is natural for them, which inc...

It seems to me that Musk and Trump have created their own institutions. Do institutions inherently endow individuals with fortune, power and fame? Whi...

Exactly. So isn't the algorithm (thought process) the difference in output here? It is the reason we have a difference in how many people respond diff...

Your focus is biased. There are plenty on the left that are just as self-centered and manipulative. It has nothing to do with political ideology.

You obviously know nothing about nature. Most organisms are territorial.

The point is that they think that they are a type of man. I have been asking you what type of man do they think they are? You might say trans-man, but...

You don't even seem to be aware that you are supporting non-random determinism in explaining how differences in causes (a lot of particle noise, espec...

Reason is a type of cause. One could just as well say that a cause is a logical condition as well. Reasoning is an event along a timeline that precede...

Then how do you determine the differences in some sounds if they are all just firing the same neurons? You're relying to much on Wikipedia to the poin...

I would say that the steam has the potential to do work if it were to come into contact with something else. At the very least the steam would merge w...

How is that keeping things simple? What's with all the labels? Just answer the question about what happens when you hear some sound. Do you hear sound...

Then Kant didn't have reasons for his conclusions? It seems to me that thinking is inherently a causal process. This just pulls the rug out from under...

You're arguing with me as well that does not assume that eliminative materialism is correct, so you're talking past me. NOS4A2 and I don't exactly sha...

This is moving the conversation forward at least - something that seems adverse to. Some people choose to live in a bubble and in doing so cut themsel...

I didn't ask about your brain. I asked about your thought process, or are you a p-zombie?

I like to use the analogy of two cats. One cat has been a pet of mine for years and another is a stray I only recently adopted. When I use the electri...

Only if you're interested in effects divorced from their causes. Why doesn't every human like garlic? Going by what some are saying in this thread, ev...

Then I don't see anything that has actually contradicted what I have said. For computers to respond differently to the same input must mean that they ...

What made you think that I was proposing the existence of a soul? Nor am I speaking as an eliminative materialist. I am simply speaking as a determini...

I guess it depends on what one means by "world". If it's not a known world (or universe or dimension if that is what they mean by "world"), then it mu...

I'm not saying anything about materialism or physicalism because I don't support either but neither am I an idealist or panpsychist. I simply accept t...

Ok. So what I'm saying is that deterministic processes are not necessarily physical (whatever that means). Whether it is physical (whatever that means...

Say we both buy the same computer brand and model. Once we get home we install software on the computer. The software I install is going to be differe...

Your response is an example of talking past each other. You're the one using terms like "physical". Not me. Is information physical?

I constantly have to repeat myself with you:

Why would you feel the need to represent things that you already observe and if some reader/listener doesn't exist yet? The whole point of representin...

Information is everywhere causes leave effects. Which information is relevant is dependent upon the present goal in the mind. If you had the goal to e...

Yet people with different eyes and different brains respond similarly and sometimes not, so you haven't yet accounted for the difference in why some p...

Which means that an individual's gender is determined by society, not by the individual like sex is. Yes because in speaking of social differences, we...

Said by someone with a complete lack of understanding of what it means to be a libertarian. A libertarian is not "every person for themselves" or "eve...

Define "artificial". Which bathroom should an android with an artificial penis use? It doesn't show anything specific, which is what I'm asking for. Y...

What if there was an android with an artificial penis, which bathroom should they use? Please don't bring up the slippery slope. YOU are the one that ...

And some people that are not transgender have had genital surgery, as you have pointed out and apparently forgotten. So what does gender status have t...

Your conflating sex and gender again. If I said that intersex people can use whichever bathroom they want, then why would their gender status matter -...

I already said that intersex people can use whatever bathroom they want. People that have had genital surgery are effectively intersex because they st...

You see, you are the one going on about bathrooms when I'm talking about the relationship between gender and sex. You're putting the cart before the h...

You are. You are contradicting yourself. If gender and sex are separate then why would genital surgery be called gender-affirming?

If you're not conflating gender and sex then why are you calling people who modified their sexual biology trans-gender? In proposing unisex bathrooms ...

Sure. I did mention that hormones are one of the determining characteristics of sexual differences, so you haven't contradicted anything I've said. Le...

...but it would not include most trans-people as most trans have not had surgery. So you would still force a man wearing a dress into the men's bathro...

You're moving the goal posts and also failing to understand how translation works. Sure letters can represent a sound, but I was talking about words a...

The fact that you can co-opt something for a different purpose is trivial and does not mean that the original and primary use no longer exists or is u...

The conclusion was that for information to be used, it has to be stored somewhere first.

If you understand the relationship between rationalism vs empiricism then all I am saying is that knowledge is supported by integrating both rather th...

There is some research that suggests that on average, in European populations women are twice as likely to be blonde than men, but we don't say that b...

The key word here is "communication" and not "gaming". We use scribbles to communicate, not to play games - although we could play games with words an...

Manage what - talking past each other? Sure.

Here we go again with conflating gender with biology, which leaves out those that have not had surgery. But you just spoke about gender as biology (by...