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And if it is not a delusion?
read the next sentence after the one you quote.:doh
And if it is not a delusion?
If it is an organic problem, surgical work on the sex organs is not addressing the damaged part of the body, but rather cuts healthy flesh.
There is no damaged part of the brain, though. Just as people with depression do not have damaged brains. The way you are wording it is simplifying the disorder and out of context.
It is a disorder, an Identity disorder. The brain is not damaged, it's the mind. Fixing the brain, is not the same as fixing the mind.
For instance: Phantom Limb.
People who have amputated limbs feel their removed limbs. They some times feel it via pain, and sometimes itchiness. But the general feeling is that their limb(s) is still there.
One fairly successful way to eliminate this "itchy" feeling is to gain a prosthetic limb. The itchiness goes away, along with the residual pain. This was how the mind was "fixed." No operation needed on the brain.
Now, do you understand the disconnect in your conclusion?
I just can't wrap my head around purposefully destroying my sexual organs. What if good sex was ruined forever and everyone knows you're a tranny anyway?
It's just mind boggling. Plus there's the whole issue of do you tell people, assume they know already, or just take the wait and see what happens approach? How can people live with all that insanity?
Phantom Limb phenomenon is a somatic delusion. I agree that GID is delusional--a somatic delusion.There is no damaged part of the brain, though. Just as people with depression do not have damaged brains. The way you are wording it is simplifying the disorder and out of context.
It is a disorder, an Identity disorder. The brain is not damaged, it's the mind. Fixing the brain, is not the same as fixing the mind.
For instance: Phantom Limb.
People who have amputated limbs feel their removed limbs. They some times feel it via pain, and sometimes itchiness. But the general feeling is that their limb(s) is still there.
Not really...a strap-on would not solve the delusion of a person suffering GID.Now, do you understand the disconnect in your conclusion?
Ok, now imagine wanting something so bad that you were willing to risk all of that and probably more. If someone is suffering so badly that they will risk everything for relief I can not imagine how a caring human being could oppose them. Should they suffer so others can be comfortable and not have to "deal with it"?
There are women suffering because their form of body dysphoria tells them they are too fat no matter how skinny they are. Allowing them to starve themselves under dr. directed guidance wouldn't be compassionate. It would instead be detrimental.
Allowing a person to destroy healthy tissue due a mental illness is not compassionate. If the transsexual person has the same psychological problems post op that he or she had pre-op then there's no benefit.
The fact that transsexuals report their surgery was beneficial doesn't mean anything.
Anorexic women are happy to starve themselves to death and may report feelings of happiness while engaging in their unhealthy eating disorder.
Allowing a person to destroy healthy tissue due a mental illness is not compassionate.
Phantom Limb phenomenon is a somatic delusion. I agree that GID is delusional--a somatic delusion.
Not really...a strap-on would not solve the delusion of a person suffering GID.
Brain does not equal mind.
I absolutely positively disagree.
Why do you say that?
I don't believe there's a difference between the brain and the mind. They are one in the same. This is why it isn't all that uncommon for someone to recover from an extensive brain injury and have a whole new personality. Without a brain you wouldn't think, couldn't think, the brain is the mind. That's why when you think the thoughts are in your head!
To say the brain is not the mind is as ridiculous as saying mental dysphoria can be fixed by slashing up the genitals.
I don't believe there's a difference between the brain and the mind. They are one in the same.
No, this just proves that the brain is PART of the mind.
Then you misunderstand. "Brain doesn't equal mind" doesn't mean "brain isn't mind."
The mind consists of the brain and other things as well. Such as the peripheral nervous system, and in some cases hormonal information via the hypothalamus. These are also part of the mind.
No, this just proves that the brain is PART of the mind.
Then you misunderstand. "Brain doesn't equal mind" doesn't mean "brain isn't mind."
The mind consists of the brain and other things as well. Such as the peripheral nervous system, and in some cases hormonal information via the hypothalamus. These are also part of the mind.
The hypothalamus is part of your brain. There is no evidence that there is a mind that is separate from the brain.
Arguing that the mind is not the brain is akin to arguing about a "soul" it's an interesting discussion but there's nothing scientific to back it up and a preponderance of evidence to counter against.
This totally explains why you don't understand this issue.
You must have a brain to have a mind, but you can't have a mind without a brain, thus they are not one in the same.
The hypothalamus also engages in communication with other organs that secretes hormones. Where does the mind begin then?
Also, I'll wait until you addressed my follow-up post.
Obviously the entire body of our organism is a "system" with messages constantly being sent from the body to the brain. But the brain is the interpretation center, the thinking center.
The brain is your mind. This doesn't mean other parts of the body don't affect the brain and vice versa but the argument that the mind and brain are separate things has no scientific backing.
Chemical imbalance in the brain will alter how you think, how you feel, etc. Hormones can affect your brain. I fail to see how getting "hormonal" is evidence that the mind and brain are two distinct entities.
The idea of a mind that is separate from the brain is an ideological argument that involves spirits and souls and so forth.
In the early 1990s, Tim Pons, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), showed that the brain can reorganize if sensory input is cut off (Pons et al. 1991). Hearing about these results,V. S. Ramachandran realized that phantom limb sensations could be due to "crosswiring" in the somatosensory cortex, which is located in the postcentral gyrus (Ramachandran & Blakeslee 1998; Ramachandran & Hirstein 1998), and which receives input from the limbs and body. Input from the left side of the body goes to the right hemisphere and vice versa. The input from extremities comes into the somatosensory cortex in an ordered way, the representation of which is referred to as the somatosensory homonculus. Input from the hand is located next to the input from the arm, input from the foot is located next to input from the hand, and so on. One oddity is input from the face is located next to input from the hand.
Ramachandran reasoned that if someone were to lose their right hand in an accident, they may then have the feelings of a phantom limb because the input that normally would go from their hand to the left somatosensory cortex would be stopped. The areas in the somatosensory cortex that are near to the ones of the hand (the arm and face) will take over (or "remap") this cortical region that no longer has input. Ramachandran and colleagues first demonstrated this remapping by showing that stroking different parts of the face led to perceptions of being touched on different parts of the missing limb (Ramachandran, Rogers-Ramachandran & Stewart 1992). Through magnetoencephalography (MEG), which permits visualization of activity in the human brain (Yang et al. 1994), Ramachandran verified the reorganization in the somatosensory cortex.
Here read about the phantom limb:
Phantom limb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nothing about that description alludes to a mind that is separate from a brain.
WTF? Hormones don't think. They don't interpret. They may affect the brains but they don't become "thinking centers."The brain uses what we refer to as neural transmitters, which are basically molecules that act as messages. Why are hormones any different? Just because they travel slower and not electrically? The brain a room in which interpretation takes place. There are other "rooms" where interpretation takes place.
Hormones do not dictate the way you think. Hormones affect your system which affects the messages sent to your brain via your nervous system.Simply because hormones dictate the way you think. How do you think, if not with your mind?
That is what people used to think of Phantom Limb. That their souls remained even though part of their body were gone. But of course, I offered no such interpretation like that. I offered you a scientific explanation, which should be treated as such.
Which one did you use to write that sentence? I recommend trying out the other one instead as the sentence was laughable nonsense.