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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm way overthinking this, but I'm going with finite. It could be an unfathomably large number, but gender is a human construct and there are a finite number of humans. Let's say each human that ever lives has a unique gender identity - there could be billions or trillions, but it would still be finite.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

but you could birth a new person who didn't fit that finite number

there will always be a hypothetical new person who could exist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There are finite number of possible humans due to there being a finite number of states a brain can be in.

There is an argument for moral realism that takes advantage of finiteness and computability of mental processes to show that there could be an objective morality

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

a finite number of states a brain can be in

there are infinite ways to arrange and configure finite neurons

computability of mental processes

are mental processes entirely computable though? you kind of run into a halting-problem-style issue because if you can compute your response to anything that should imply that you can never make a decision that surprises the computation. but if you feed knowledge of the computation's result into your decision making process you can just pick the opposite

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

there are infinite ways to arrange and configure finite neurons

hm? i don't see how this is true at all. a finite of anything in a finite space can only have finite configurations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

what about Genders Georg, who lives in a cave and has uncountably many genders all by xemself?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I thought something similar, but the human brain is finite, so I don't think a single person could have an uncountably infinite gender; unfathomably large, maybe, but it would still be finite.

Edit: I'm not trying to be bigoted here. If someone does identify that way I don't want to discredit your identity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

A single human brain is finite, but the possible configurations of neurons across any possible hypothetical brain is decidedly infinite.