Center applies to imagery and smell too. Obviously, it is aimed at asserting truth, someone who successfully tricks a person into thinking they are a sex they are not is liable to be killed in a highly justified rage attack- about the worst offence you can offer, massive trespass on trust, not to mention wasted time in pursuing the wrong mate, one who can’t reproduce.
A thing is more than language- one of the reasons I’m not on Faust’ Idiot Brigade trying to convince everyone that the problems of philosophy are reducible to linguistic matters. I won’t exclude language from a considerable chunk of philosophy either though, as well as pre-linguistic precedents from which language evolved out of.
One theory is language evolved out of grooming… We speak to one another in the same ratios that primates groom, and it supposedly occupies the same part of the mind. I suppose it is how you can just sit with someone looking out a window, playing with her hair while watching the rain. Males and females in species almost never groom one another at the same equitable rates, we tend to spoil one sex over another.
But this touches up with paraphilia, kink, situation. How do we identify not just kink, but sexual
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How do we identify not just a schema for kink (I want “her” to sit on my face, without any her in mind, just traits of herness) with sexual acts we enjoyed and experienced? Memories, fixation on visual, tactile, taste, smell. Memory coding.
A lot of gender is built into this, acceptability isn’t completely mallible, not purely a social construct. We see this a lot in specialty porn, they will focus on trends in aesthetics, but it is always a reference to something that came before, however new it is. Erotica sticks to very old, defined acts, not because we are conservative and lazy in out approach to manufacturing new concepts, but because the eye if the needle for paraphilia to become visually charged is so very, very small in terms of making Visual-to-Ideal connections, and assigning a erotically positive sign to it. A lot if times, the negative isn’t even learned, it results from Uncanny Valley, where we look at a situation of seemingly paralleled manufactured exactness, but something is off.
Trixie didn’t grasp why I still refuse to accept tranny lesbians- I can still tell they are make, and furthermore, even if I failed to detect this, the second I found out I’ve been tricked, deep seated rage would result. If I was in a sexual relation with that con, it would turn out very, very bad for the both of us.
This makes a lot of sense if you accept gender is more than merely a social co strict, but survival traits we’ve evolved to keep us on the straight and narrow. While a lot if the signs are learned, they are always associated and joined with obvious, turtle like visual cues not easily faked. That explains the fashion model phenomena on Tumble or Pintrest, how some girls get massive followings modeling dresses, far, far, far higher than anything Trixie could ever hope for. They are on the one hand manufacturing what it means to be feminine, but on the other, are doing so by flaunting clearly wonderful biological traits that indicate they are so rn to anyone. It doesn’t end here, there are further processes that further confirm or reject a persons gender.
A lot of that is OODA Loop confirmations.
While we can objectively assert there are two sexes, we process it through these networks in order to know it in the moment, and to return back to it. Language is only a aspect, but it neither dominates nor can rewrite the process. We can just tell usually, and oftentimes become indignant or confused in the rewards and punishment processes of the mind in assigning gender when we get it wrong or confused.
We adopted a cat recently (well, not me) and called it Sophie, because the old man called it that because his wife called it that. We brought it to the vet to get it shots, see if it needed fixed, and found out Sophie was a he, was already fixed. We treated Sophie as a girl, but something was always off. After we got him back, we renamed him Joey from Sophie, and that morphed into Jo Jo the Potato. He takes to being a make a bit better, I’m sure the other cats knew this, and were confused when we treated him otherwise.
Now, why do people call tools and animals by the sexes? I’m not sure, but I’m guessing it evolved out of this, was so central to our visual process over millions of years as primates in social groups (babboons are very doubtful to subscribe to your theory), and certainly helped in the domestication and breeding of animals. A lot of archaic languages likely mixed the technical specs of the domestication of animals with the way they handled technology. I can’t say for certain, need to look over early semetic languages, but that is my hunch.
Gender is built into the observation process, it isn’t completely nebulous, has more to do with nature than nurture, and the further evidence of this is female fashion personalities that storm into fame, modeling like everyone else, but much, much better- cause of the obvious reasons. A granny thinks they can just make each part similar, and as a whole becomes a amazing woman, but it completely fails in heterosexual make processing, and females ate just nice enough not to destroy your dreams, as they themselves see it as a construct- but women aren’t designed by nature to be as visually obsessed with processing sexusl characteristics as males are. Hence the paraphilia- a addictive situation of image, shapes, smells, scenerio- highly irrational, but associatable with somewhat pkausable events, it can be learned and increased in terms if desire. That means it is almost certainly real, even if embedded in categorical constructs and aesthetic themes. It is always a several to something else, to something else, to something else. It is built in observer able reality, and we can associate it with sexual rewards, and desire to seek it out. Our bodies treat it as plausable and real. We wouldn’t waste that much psychological machinery on something inherently false and wasteful. In every sexual situation exists 100,000,000 past sexual encounters our ancestors went through.
I didn’t bring up neurons, you did.