@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green
Post #1236529
2026-03-28 11:41 UTC
@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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@Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol 2026-03-28 12:13
@alberto_cottica @Tattie But that's just it, isn't it? I didn't try to imagine what it would be like to be a woman, and I think that's the wrong imagining for the purposes of this conversation. I imagined what it would be like if I, suddenly and inexplicably, woke up in a female body. I was not a woman, and did not imagine myself as such. I didn't even "imagine myself as trans". I imagined what would happen if I just woke up in a female body, and the need to transition arose out of that situation all on its own.