X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fsexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md;h=8be768034d0235285c17a80a2fa85651362ace0f;hp=2d6d250e66b5378a235e12d98c0979e391d34df4;hb=9f21b5ee172be96363f7b8b084ec7e549b8bfb51;hpb=0728c50bd7c5e761ac8410983916ddd3fd9ba3ee diff --git a/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md b/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md index 2d6d250..8be7680 100644 --- a/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md +++ b/content/drafts/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ It all started in summer 2007 (I was nineteen years old), when I came across _Ov There are a few things about me that I need to explain before I get into the topic-specific impact the blog had on me. -The first thing—the chronologically first thing. Ever since I was fourteen years old— +The first thing—the chronologically first thing. Ever since I was thirteen or fourteen years old— (and I _really_ didn't expect to be blogging about this eighteen years later) @@ -132,9 +132,11 @@ The main plot of my secret erotic fantasy accomodates many frame stories, but I So imagine having something like the transporter in _Star Trek_, but you re-materialize with the body of someone else, rather than your original body—a little booth I could walk in, dissolve in a tingly glowy special effect for a few seconds, and walk out looking [like Nana Visitor (circa 1998)](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kay_Eaton?file=Kay_Eaton.jpg). -This high-level fantasy _description_ of a hypothetical technology leaves some details unspecified—not just the _how_, but the _what_. What would the magical transformation booth do to my brain? What would I _want_ it to do, if I can't change the physical nature of reality but if engineering practicalities weren't a constraint? (That is, I'm allowed to posit any atom-configuration without having to worry about how you would get all the atoms in the right place, but I'm not allowed to posit tethering my immortal soul to a new body, because souls aren't real.) +This high-level fantasy _description_ of a hypothetical technology leaves some details unspecified—not just the _how_, but the _what_. What would the magical transformation booth do to my brain? What would I _want_ it to do, if I can't change [the basic nature of reality](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tPqQdLCuxanjhoaNs/reductionism) but if engineering practicalities weren't a constraint? (That is, I'm allowed to posit any atom-configuration without having to worry about how you would get all the atoms in the right place, but I'm not allowed to posit tethering my immortal soul to a new body, because [souls](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u6JzcFtPGiznFgDxP/excluding-the-supernatural) [aren't](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7Au7kvRAPREm3ADcK/psychic-powers) [real](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fdEWWr8St59bXLbQr/zombies-zombies).) -The point about motor connections makes me confident that it would have to change _something_ to integrate my mind with a new female body—if nothing else, my unmodified brain doesn't physically _fit_ inside Nana Visitor's skull. (The sex difference in raw brain matter is Cohen's _d_ ≈ 1.4, and Nana Visitor doesn't look like she has an unusually large head.) +The anti-plug-and-play argument makes me confident that it would have to change _something_ to integrate my mind with a new female body—if nothing else, my unmodified brain doesn't physically _fit_ inside Nana Visitor's skull. (The sex difference in raw brain matter is Cohen's _d_ ≈ 1.4, and Nana Visitor doesn't look like she has an unusually large head.) + +[TODO: is the "brain matter" stat mass, or volume??] [...]