critical minds want to know the answer to this question
With enough funding, I will finish my research on the Hilbert space of genders where every particle in every possible reality has a one-to-one correspondence to a gender. I call it the “Everettian gender hypercontinuum”.
this poll is homophobic, gays are not good enough at math to know the difference between countably and uncountably infinite /s
I’d say finite, up to 8.1 billion options. My throught process is that what isn’t alive doesn’t count.
I guess it depends on whether we’re willing to say a gender exists if theoretically possible though not ever embodied. Will artificial sapients have gender identities?
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.
what about Genders Georg, who lives in a cave and has uncountably many genders all by xemself?
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.
A single human brain is finite, but the possible configurations of neurons across any possible hypothetical brain is decidedly infinite.
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
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
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
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.
