When I started taking hormones in order to fix the sorry state my body was in I really didn’t think they would change me much in the realm of personal identity. And there really hasn’t been any earthshaking alterations, not sure if that is because my brain architecture was already mostly female or because hormones don’t cause many changes, but the amount of small subtle changes and a few moderate ones that added up to make me a almost a completely different person. I may have some other flaws that make it difficult for me to form a personal identity but I think it is next to impossible to maintain a coherent personal identity while going through this type of change.
The first thing I think a newly minted girl would notice is that everything smells different. And these smells effect the way you think in interesting ways, such as altering what type of foods you enjoy by changing how they taste. Let’s not even get into smelling other people. That alone has caused my sexual orientation to flip-flop back and forth so much that I am just confused.
To pack all this into a single jolt would likely destroy any hope of sanity in the near future. So I can see Eliezer’s problem here pretty clearly, still struggling to keep my own self from going loopy. Yep.
When I started taking hormones in order to fix the sorry state my body was in I really didn’t think they would change me much in the realm of personal identity. And there really hasn’t been any earthshaking alterations, not sure if that is because my brain architecture was already mostly female or because hormones don’t cause many changes, but the amount of small subtle changes and a few moderate ones that added up to make me a almost a completely different person. I may have some other flaws that make it difficult for me to form a personal identity but I think it is next to impossible to maintain a coherent personal identity while going through this type of change.
The first thing I think a newly minted girl would notice is that everything smells different. And these smells effect the way you think in interesting ways, such as altering what type of foods you enjoy by changing how they taste. Let’s not even get into smelling other people. That alone has caused my sexual orientation to flip-flop back and forth so much that I am just confused.
To pack all this into a single jolt would likely destroy any hope of sanity in the near future. So I can see Eliezer’s problem here pretty clearly, still struggling to keep my own self from going loopy. Yep.