Post #1236528

2026-03-28 11:15 UTC

@alberto_cottica yes indeed, it's an extremely long-standing trope. But the challenge I'd put to you is to stay in this world, and in your own self, as you imagine this. How would you, Alberto, experience this? What would you feel physically and emotionally, embodied inexplicably in a female body? @Azuaron

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@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green 2026-03-28 11:41

@Tattie @Azuaron none of this is to deny the experience of actual trans people, I assure you. I have tried to imagine what it would feel like to be in different bodies (female, disabled, alien, robot, spaceship...). But then it goes back to Daniel Dennett's old argument: you can perhaps imagine what it would feel like to YOU to be, say, a bat. But you cannot imagine what that feels like TO THE BAT ITSELF. You do the thought experiment and it is interesting, but it only goes so far.

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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social 2026-03-30 07:10

@Tattie @alberto_cottica @Azuaron I would be instantly terrified of all men and want nothing at all to do with them. And that's just that. Would be like dropping a bomb in the room I'd panic so bad. MAYBE that situation would improve if I suddenly became attracted to them. I very much doubt it.

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