Quote:
Originally Posted by GGG
I actually don’t understand the concept of Gender or how one feels their Gender doesn’t fit them or the correlary that they feel that their gender does fit them. I am male but really that’s no different than I have brown hair or I am tall.
|
There's a fairly thought experiment that has helped many people grasp personal experience of gender better.
Imagine that your consciousness is copied to a machine. It's self-conscious bunch of ones and zeroes somewhere in digital space that is a perfect copy of your consciousness.
Would that digital copy of you be male?
I would day yes, yes it would be, somehow. It's somewhat irrational, but it
feels true. Even without body, I would still be male. My understanding of my gender does go beyond my body, even thought I'm mostly not aware if it.