so why might it persistently render a body corresponding to the opposite gender?
Considering that biology doesn’t do “opposite gender” but expression pathways, might a sensory disturbance/noise be expanding/contracting the boundary of existing organ representations causing a mismatch which looks like a different gender?
(in my opinion the default neural set up doesn’t have a body gender category at all)
It seems that if we do not have a body template conditioned at the level of the brain structure and a template of our body, this must be the result of personality development.
And this is interesting from the point of view of transhumanism: will I, with another pair of hands or a cybernetic eye from the old school (yes, this is not very realistic), feel them wrong because of some expectations built into the “iron” level? Is it because expectations are fixed and embedded at the level of the inner layers of the psyche? Because of the long habit of using the body the way it is?
What if my brain is moved to an artificial body of a more intelligent design, say for space? Or, for some reason (this sounds debatable and ethical, so let’s not focus on it), a person will use a non-humanoid body from birth (this is due to a number of purely physiological problems, I believe that they are solved through imitation of necessary healthy activities, replacing signals about them with equivalent ones, but with reference to the body used through life support systems).
I have not experienced dysphoria (beyond healthy dissatisfaction with my omissions in reasonable preventive care of my health and sculpting a better body) and I believe that our bodies are our clay from which we can make what we need or like.
From the idea of dysphoria as a product of intrauterine development of a discrepancy in body-brain typology, it seems to follow that everyone should have such expectations, a preset body model (and be accessible to self-observation or manifest themselves when deviating from this model, which is a problem for the idea of making one’s body more interesting than the basic equipment)
It seems that if we do not have a body template conditioned at the level of the brain structure and a template of our body, this must be the result of personality development.
And this is interesting from the point of view of transhumanism: will I, with another pair of hands or a cybernetic eye from the old school (yes, this is not very realistic), feel them wrong because of some expectations built into the “iron” level? Is it because expectations are fixed and embedded at the level of the inner layers of the psyche? Because of the long habit of using the body the way it is?
What if my brain is moved to an artificial body of a more intelligent design, say for space?
Or, for some reason (this sounds debatable and ethical, so let’s not focus on it), a person will use a non-humanoid body from birth (this is due to a number of purely physiological problems, I believe that they are solved through imitation of necessary healthy activities, replacing signals about them with equivalent ones, but with reference to the body used through life support systems).
I have not experienced dysphoria (beyond healthy dissatisfaction with my omissions in reasonable preventive care of my health and sculpting a better body) and I believe that our bodies are our clay from which we can make what we need or like.
From the idea of dysphoria as a product of intrauterine development of a discrepancy in body-brain typology, it seems to follow that everyone should have such expectations, a preset body model (and be accessible to self-observation or manifest themselves when deviating from this model, which is a problem for the idea of making one’s body more interesting than the basic equipment)