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This is a very interesting way of looking at it, but I think a "mistake" in the logic would be if I'm keeping my memories or not. If I remember my previous life as a human, I would maybe stick to the "normalcy" of female pronouns. Yet if I woke up one day, in a male body, I think the physical things would override the sense of normalcy, and I would try to get used to male pronouns. (Which basically just means that, to me, gender is based on the physical)
However, if I woke up as a robot with no physical tell, and no memories, I have no idea what I would prefer.
Comment by labcoat_samurai at 14/01/2025 at 21:12 UTC
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Yeah, I think the force of habit would be significant. You're used to your name and your gender identity and it therefore has inertia. Without a strong drive to charge it, you might be tempted to keep it. But the fact that you can keep it in this hypothetical suggests to me that you're fairly comfortable gendering genderless things (and I think most of us are).
It sounds like for you it's only when you are in a male body that the challenge becomes great enough that you might abandon your gender identity.
I think that speaks to the notion that genderless expression isn't something most people understand or connect with. Female identity in a male body creates a dysphoria that needs to be resolved, but female identity in a neutral body isn't in conflict.
I think that's interesting. Personally, I suspect I would switch to a neutral identity if I had a neutral body. I don't feel strongly about my male identity and I think I mostly default to it out of convenience.