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Unbridled9
01/06/20 11:58:12 AM
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Do you accept?







You are given the chance to go back in time to the moment of your birth. You will retain all your current knowledge, however you will have your biological gender changed and you are magically cursed to be unable to change it back as you grow older. Do you accept?

Yes, this does mean you are starting life over as a baby.

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PKMNsony
01/06/20 12:08:28 PM
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So what does other change to? Also, guess I'll go lesbian.
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CTLM
01/06/20 12:09:30 PM
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The "other" options aren't necessary. There's still only 2 genders.

I wouldn't do it. I never want to a female.
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Unbridled9
01/06/20 12:10:22 PM
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PKMNsony posted...
So what does other change to? Also, guess I'll go lesbian.

Their opposite biological gender or whatever would be applicable. I mean, I only have so many slots for the vote options.

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LinkPizza
01/06/20 12:11:33 PM
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Eh. No. I like being male. And while it could be fun to have sex with a bunch of straight guys, I real my like putting my penis in guys butts. So, ld have to peg. But pegging during the younger parts of my life wasnt really a big thing. Anyway, it would mostly be guys wanting to put stuff in me. So, no. I am male and I do not accept...
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Unbridled9
01/06/20 12:11:35 PM
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CTLM posted...
The "other" options aren't necessary. There's still only 2 genders.

I wouldn't do it. I never want to a female.

It's 2020 and I'd rather focus on the question presented instead of the question of how many genders exist. Blame tumblr for making this harder than it needs to be.

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Unbridled9
01/06/20 12:20:09 PM
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LinkPizza posted...
Eh. No. I like being male. And while it could be fun to have sex with a bunch of straight guys, I real my like putting my penis in guys butts. So, ld have to peg. But pegging during the younger parts of my life wasnt really a big thing. Anyway, it would mostly be guys wanting to put stuff in me. So, no. I am male and I do not accept...

You get to retain all your present knowledge as well. Ya know, knowing the future might be useful...

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Nichtcrawler X
01/06/20 12:23:21 PM
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CTLM posted...
The "other" options aren't necessary. There's still only 2 genders.

That depends on whether you are talking about gender/mental sex or sex/biological sex.
Genders I would say there are as many of as there are people and thus ultimately not very relevant in discussions such as this.
Sexes still depends on definitions even more and how one defines "male", "female" and "other". Everyone will agree where XX and XY fall in that nomenclature, the others are less clear.

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LinkPizza
01/06/20 12:25:42 PM
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Unbridled9 posted...
You get to retain all your present knowledge as well. Ya know, knowing the future might be useful...

To a certain degree. But things in my life will change. Like the whole seeing my mom at the school function talking to the guys about the all boys school I almost went to. Or having my siblings (as my mom wanted a girl). I may not have done the same things I did when I was in school. May not have had the same friends. I would have dated different people. And wouldnt be able to date the ones I dated in this life (as they were gay and Id be a female). I probably wouldnt have the job I have now or even be in the same state. I wouldnt have my dogs. I probably couldnt even change things in the future, as Id be a kid. I dont remember enough to win any bi lotteries. And as soon as I change the future, everything else would most likely change as well, making my knowledge null and void. And I wouldnt be able to fuck guys with my penis. So, its definitely not worth it for me...

Also, I know many people who wouldnt want to lose their spouse or children. And my pets are very important to me...
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darcandkharg31
01/06/20 12:30:10 PM
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You may take my life but you will never take my wiener!

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LinkPizza
01/06/20 12:30:40 PM
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darcandkharg31 posted...
You may take my life but you will never take my wiener!

Ill drink to that!
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SpeedDemon20
01/06/20 12:35:22 PM
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Yes, because I want to see how much I can mess up the timeline, even when attempting to keep things in line. I'd have a crises each time I encountered a bug because I don't remember if I squished it or not. But that wouldn't matter anyway, because the timeline would already be messed up just by me having retained knowledge. I wouldn't know I had messed up the timeline until 15 to 25 years old. At that point, this world would seem like a dream. I'd write about it, and the book would generate a small fanbase. I wouldn't be super rich, but a little more than what I have now.

I eventually go to a convention and speak with some fans. One fan in particular, I'd become intimate with, but it'd turn out she (I imagine I'd be lesbian) was a reporter trying to get the scoop on where I got my ideas. Eventually, it is published that I'm a loon. At which point, I grow a strong distrust of people and seclude myself in the mountains.

Endgame comes out, and instead of who I expect, Captain America does the snap (and his last words are, "And I... candothisallday.").

After seeing that, I finally truly understand the depths of my failure and no one ever hears from me again.

HBO contacts me to make a mini-series about my book and a literary company wants me to write a sequel because of the loose plot strings I had left (but really, I only retained what I lived through, so those were harder to write). But they are too late.

Also, I touch myself a lot.

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CTLM
01/06/20 12:39:41 PM
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Nichtcrawler X posted...
That depends on whether you are talking about gender/mental sex or sex/biological sex.
Genders I would say there are as many of as there are people and thus ultimately not very relevant in discussions such as this.
Sexes still depends on definitions even more and how one defines "male", "female" and "other". Everyone will agree where XX and XY fall in that nomenclature, the others are less clear.

Either a person is male or female. Born with a penis? Male. Vagina? Female.

Notice clothes don't come in men's, women's, Vishnu, , stick figure, and so on? Because even though people can try to make up genders all they want, but they're still fake. There's only 2 genders
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LinkPizza
01/06/20 12:41:32 PM
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CTLM posted...
Either a person is male or female. Born with a penis? Male. Vagina? Female.

What about hermaphrodites?
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slacker03150
01/06/20 12:58:32 PM
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If there were a wish granting genie, this might be an actual wish I would consider. Only downside is living a few years as a baby.

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FrozenBananas
01/06/20 1:04:09 PM
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Sure I always thought Id make a good lesbian

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Nichtcrawler X
01/06/20 1:04:46 PM
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CTLM posted...
Either a person is male or female. Born with a penis? Male. Vagina? Female.

The classical observation, which falls in line with normally expressed XX and XY, but might not include other possibilities.

CTLM posted...
Notice clothes don't come in men's, women's, Vishnu, , stick figure, and so on? Because even though people can try to make up genders all they want, but they're still fake. There's only 2 genders

Again, because people like to argue two separate concepts being only one concept because in common usage we use words for them that used to only describe a single concept.

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ParanoidObsessive
01/06/20 1:43:17 PM
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Nichtcrawler X posted...
Again, because people like to argue two separate concepts being only one concept because in common usage we use words for them that used to only describe a single concept.

The problem is, one of those concepts is arguably a social construct that has no real meaningful existence or objective reality, while the other is a biological function that pretty clearly exists as an either/or binary (with occasional abnormal exceptions).

Biological sex is pretty well set. Cultural sex/gender is only really meaningful as an expression of biological sex and becomes completely superfluous the moment you attempt to extend it too far.
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TheFalseDeity
01/06/20 3:15:33 PM
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Male and would accept without hesitation. A bonus more than a negative for me.

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PMarth2002
01/06/20 3:53:51 PM
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Its sort of tempting for the chance of a re-do and to see what life is like for a woman, but i'd probably say no if I have to take it now or lose the chance. I've still got years ahead of me.

If you asked me again at the end of my life, i'd say yes in a heartbeat.

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GenericGuy
01/06/20 3:55:04 PM
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lesbian squad

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xjayguyx
01/06/20 8:06:01 PM
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Yup I'll be one ultra rich lesbian :)
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ParanoidObsessive
01/06/20 9:57:47 PM
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The one thing people never really consider when it comes to the whole idea of living your life again is that you're going to be seriously messed up for a long time.

For your first couple years you're going to have the psychological trauma of being fully self-aware but unable to move or form words properly (it's not just brain development but also physical development you'll lack). Shitting yourself, relying on adults to feed you (with no real say in the matter), spending most of your time just staring at walls until they start letting you watch TV (though even then you won't have a say in what to watch, and a lot of it will suck for a long time). And you'll have to spend most of your time knowing about major events in advance yet never admitting to that, or otherwise your parents will start thinking you're possessed or something (which you technically would be).

Once you get to school, the other kids are going to find you incredibly creepy - you'll basically be an adult in a child body. You'll never connect with anyone the way you (hopefully) did in real life, because you won't relate to any of them and they'll be weirded out by you. You're going to have a full decade of having no friends, of having teachers who feel uneasy around you, and relearning material you already know (you can potentially benefit here by being a Doogie Houser-type kid and leapfrog grades and graduate years earlier, but there's a limit to how much you can get away with - no one is going to let you go to college at age 8 even if you seem to know all the material).

Once you get to actual adulthood, things will level out - you can always move to some place you've never been before, and interact with people who never knew you as a kid (and you don't have prior life memories of that will constantly get in the way and make you seem like a creepy stalker). To entirely new people, you'll seem like a relatively normal adult (unless you've been super-traumatized by the last 20 years and it blatantly shows). But that also means giving up every friend you currently have in life, no matter how much you like them (it also means all of your foreknowledge won't be all that useful when it comes to your personal life, just financially).

Also, you'll still have to be very careful about hiding the fact that you know things in advance. Go around warning people about 9/11 before it happens and you're likely to get arrested for being involved.

The other problem people don't consider is that they blithely accept the idea that "Welp, guess I'll be gay then", but that's also going to radically impact your potential dating situation (if you think you had trouble getting dates in your normal life, imagine what it will be like when your pool of potential partners is 1/4th to 1/10th the size and most of them feel the need to hide their preferences to some degree), and if you're old enough, it's going to have you "growing up" in a time when the social stigma for being gay is still fairly strong (my slightly older cousin who grew up in the 70s/80s didn't feel comfortable coming out until he was nearly 30 - even when he was living with his boyfriend they'd pass it off as them just being "friends", even though most people knew full well what the situation was). Of course, if you're full-bi you could probably get away with it a bit easier, or if you're gay now it would potentially be a plus (the same for people who are trans or at least aspire to be to some degree).



xjayguyx posted...
Yup I'll be one ultra rich lesbian :)

Not necessarily. While you think you'll be able to bet, invest, or invent your way to success, keep in mind that the average person doesn't remember the exact results of all THAT many sporting events (and will look suspicious if they start to constantly win anyway). And that, while it's easy to say "I'm going to invent Google" (or Facebook, or the iPhone, or whatever), it's a lot harder to actually do, and do in a way that will be as successful as it was naturally.

Sure, you could potentially profit if you're very clever and very careful, but not necessarily so much so that you'll be top of Forbes 500. And that's before you even start to get into things like systemic discrimination in most of the business world that will restrict you to some degree. Or the fact that you'll have to spend the first 15 years or so of life reliving your childhood, and better hope you don't start forgetting important names and dates if you're planning to exploit gambling or investing.

(And let's not even get into the potential problems you're going to face if we live in a Butterfly Effect chaotic universe, where the moment you start doing things differently in your life it immediately beings rippling outwards and radically changing history in major and unpredictable ways, so by the time you're a teenager everything's pretty much happening differently anyway. If that's the case, this whole scenario is kind of screwed.)

That being said, if whoever is offering you this deal gives you time to make preparations, then you could really beat the system. Do a little research, go back and find a huge lotto/Powerball payout and memorize the numbers (though again, hope you remember every number even after 15 years or so of childhood).
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FrozenBananas
01/06/20 10:35:21 PM
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Jesus PO

D:

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ParanoidObsessive
01/06/20 11:08:15 PM
#25:


FrozenBananas posted...
Jesus PO

D:

That's the curse of being clever/responsible/old. You start thinking through the actual potential consequences of things and not just leaping the moment you go "Kewl!"

The "reborn with memories" scenario works a lot better if you just relive your entire childhood again without memories, then "inherit" them from yourself when you turn 18 or so, but that still leaves you unable to really alter your own personality development (which would almost certainly be different for a gender-swapped version of you) or effectively guide your social life without coming across like a weirdo.
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Bugmeat
01/06/20 11:14:08 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Not necessarily. While you think you'll be able to bet, invest, or invent your way to success, keep in mind that the average person doesn't remember the exact results of all THAT many sporting events (and will look suspicious if they start to constantly win anyway). And that, while it's easy to say "I'm going to invent Google" (or Facebook, or the iPhone, or whatever), it's a lot harder to actually do, and do in a way that will be as successful as it was naturally.

All you really need to do is remember one set of lotto numbers and the date of the drawing. Pick a huge jackpot early in your adult life, then memorize the drawing before it was won so that you're the only winner and you don'thave to share it. Don't bother trying to remember sporting events or anything else like that. Don't try to "invent" Apple or Google. Just use that huge jackpot to invest massively in companies like Apple and Google. It won't be hard to remember half a dozen massively successful companies to get in on early. And by investing in them instead of trying to invent them, they unfold just as they did the first time around with the right people doing the right things at the right time, just like they already did.

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ParanoidObsessive
01/06/20 11:23:54 PM
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Yeah, but do you remember exactly when the best time to invest in Apple or Google is? And when you should dump for maximum benefit?

Also keep in mind, manipulating the market that way will absolutely alter the ebb and flow of the economy - move enough money over a long enough period of time, and you may start to change history without even realizing it.
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Lokarin
01/06/20 11:26:48 PM
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I'd do it even if I didn't remember anything and didn't change genders... I covet living

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Zeus
01/06/20 11:53:42 PM
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It's tempting solely for adding to my lifespan and, of course, it may ultimately result in other rerolls. On the negative side, I'd be stuck with 2 (or more) sets of memories and the knowledge of how certain things turned out better the first time.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
The one thing people never really consider when it comes to the whole idea of living your life again is that you're going to be seriously messed up for a long time.

For your first couple years you're going to have the psychological trauma of being fully self-aware but unable to move or form words properly (it's not just brain development but also physical development you'll lack). Shitting yourself, relying on adults to feed you (with no real say in the matter), spending most of your time just staring at walls until they start letting you watch TV (though even then you won't have a say in what to watch, and a lot of it will suck for a long time). And you'll have to spend most of your time knowing about major events in advance yet never admitting to that, or otherwise your parents will start thinking you're possessed or something (which you technically would be).

Once again, you're assuming that individual consciousness is solely a construct of memories rather than biology and that the process of being younger won't affect your outlook. Ironically enough, you even bring up brain development while simultaneously glossing over the fact that the same development would color your existence so ultimately you wouldn't simply be an adult trapped in a child's body. Instead, you'd be a child in a child's body with access to -- but not necessarily the ability to immediately process -- your adult memories. Your biology would act as a buffer to the horror that you believe would result.

Again, keep in mind that things like impulse control aren't fully developed until maybe a young person his their 20s despite a reasonable knowledge and understanding of consequences beause the brain hasn't developed to the point where you have that control.

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ParanoidObsessive
01/07/20 12:27:57 AM
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Zeus posted...
Once again, you're assuming that individual consciousness is solely a construct of memories rather than biology and that the process of being younger won't affect your outlook.

Mainly because the initial premise says you retain all current knowledge, which would include life experience, which is a large part of personality development.

Yes, biochemistry definitely plays a large role in personality as well, but once you're already working with decades worth of experiential memories, the impact of biology would likely be minimized. At most, you'd potentially have different emotional reactions to things as your neurochemistry differs.

(Then again, I've always fallen pretty hard on the environmental side of the Nature/Nurture argument, and my main field was Cognitive Psychology, where there tends to be emphasis on the idea of the "mind" being software running on the hardware of the brain/body.)

Or, conversely, the moment you're dropping into a new body your existing personality is almost entirely eradicated (because radically different neurochemistry would change a lot of how you react to the world and process input, especially emotionally - but for the sake of the hypothetical I'm mostly ignoring that and just going with the premise as presented. Because otherwise, I'd argue that YOU don't retain all current knowledge, or anything at all), at which point the entire question becomes moot anyway, because "you" will no longer exist the moment you take the deal, and "someone else" will just get the opportunity to benefit from whatever lotto numbers you manage to memorize somehow.

(Realistically speaking this entire scenario would be impossible anyway, since memories stem from neuron development and you'd have to replicate your adult brain in its entirety in a child skull, and radically different neurochemistry would change a lot of how you react to the world and process input, especially emotionally, but for the sake of the hypothetical I'm mostly ignoring that and just going with the premise as presented.)



Zeus posted...
Ironically enough, you even bring up brain development while simultaneously glossing over the fact that the same development would color your existence so ultimately you wouldn't simply be an adult trapped in a child's body.

Because this really wouldn't be the case.

Childhood personality development tends to occur in a specific way because it involves starting with a blank slate, and learning to see the world in different ways, with the "lens" you see the world through changing over time. The world you see and understand as a child who has only reached the concrete reasoning stage is different from the world of a teen who is mastering abstract thinking.

But in our current scenario we're not dealing with tabula rasa children, but children who are essentially born with all the knowledge of their adult selves. They would by definition be something completely other than a normal child, even if their viewpoint was being contracted by their new biology.



Zeus posted...
Again, keep in mind that things like impulse control aren't fully developed until maybe a young person his their 20s despite a reasonable knowledge and understanding of consequences beause the brain hasn't developed to the point where you have that control.

True, but with adult knowledge you'd theoretically possess the awareness of that fact, which complicates the issue. You'd understand your own nature more than any child has ever been able to - THEY have trouble processing ideas because they can't conceive of or process the knowledge that leads to specific conclusions, but a mind full of adult memories is coming with a personality that has already processed those conclusions. At best, you're basically an adult in a child body. At worst, you wind up hopelessly insane (and thus the hypothetical scenario is kind of pointless, which seems to run counter to what the question implies).

To be perfectly frank, in order to retain your prior memories at all, your brain structure would pretty much HAVE to be at an adult level, so what we're talking about is more like dropping an adult brain into an infant body (somehow, size issues being ignored), than it is somehow "pouring" memories into a child brain (because that's not how brains work).

The only real way around it is if you assume the "mind" or "soul" exists beyond the brain, but if we do that it negates the body/biology problem anyway.

To go for another analogy, a child brain is like a strand of wool, while an adult mind is a massive tapestry filled with intricate designs. If you try to unweave the tapestry to become a single strand of wool again, you lose all the memories (the designs), so the only way to preserve the memories is to preserve the overall structure. But because personality is a product of that structure filtered through biochemical reactions, "you" would still be "YOU" (at least until time and the constant onslaught of foreign neurochemistry and hormones slowly reshaped you into someone else).

But we tend to implicitly accept the idea that personality changes over time (the "me" I am today isn't necessarily the same "me" I was 30 years ago, nor the same "me" I will potentially be 30 years from now), so I feel like reliving your way through life again already carries the implicit understanding that you won't necessarily STAY the same you you are now through the entire process.

A reborn female 42-year old me who lived through 42 years of life (exploiting my memories and changing tons of things) isn't going to be the same as 42 year old me NOW, even without the added complications of female hormones and a potentially slightly different balance of neurotransmitters (though I'd say the premise assumes you're as close to the "you" you are now as possible, so only sex-influenced biochemistry should change). Her life experience would be too different.

But at the point of rebirth, when she's still an infant with almost no experiential deviation from my baseline, if she retains ALL of my current memories, she essentially starts with my current personality.

(Of course, we can also get into things like transmigration of consciousness and continuity of identity, but then we get into the old "Does a Star Trek transporter kill you?" discussion. The answer is "Yes".)
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Zeus
01/07/20 12:50:57 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Childhood personality development tends to occur in a specific way because it involves starting with a blank slate, and learning to see the world in different ways, with the "lens" you see the world through changing over time. The world you see and understand as a child who has only reached the concrete reasoning stage is different from the world of a teen who is mastering abstract thinking.

But in our current scenario we're not dealing with tabula rasa children, but children who are essentially born with all the knowledge of their adult selves. They would by definition be something completely other than a normal child, even if their viewpoint was being contracted by their new biology.

Which might be a stronger argument if not for the fact that, again, the brain's ability to comprehend things alters perception. Children aren't simply blank copies of adults but their own thing onto themselves. And there's a general recognition that children aren't necessarily wired to properly comprehend certain things at younger ages, a fact that likely wouldn't be negated by having memories because children still act in certain ways even after having an understanding that should make them inclined to act differently.

In some ways, it wouldn't really be different from something like inebriation.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
True, but with adult knowledge you'd theoretically possess the awareness of that fact, which complicates the issue.

Does knowing when you're high or drunk negate your altered state?

ParanoidObsessive posted...
You'd understand your own nature more than any child has ever been able to - THEY have trouble processing ideas because they can't conceive of or process the knowledge that leads to specific conclusions, but a mind full of adult memories is coming with a personality that has already processed those conclusions. At best, you're basically an adult in a child body. At worst, you wind up hopelessly insane (and thus the hypothetical scenario is kind of pointless, which seems to run counter to what the question implies).

Again, it's not solely the fact that you don't have prior experience to draw upon -- which is more than issue for teens (although even then the biology is in play) -- but that you're dealing with a greatly impaired system. The hopeless insane argument is silly because children ARE quite often aware of and resent their limitations, a fact that doesn't necessarily change simply because your memories would make you more precisely aware of said limitations.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
But at the point of rebirth, when she's still an infant with almost no experiential deviation from my baseline, if she retains ALL of my current memories, she essentially starts with my current personality.

Except that's not the case when your brain is incapable of higher functions. You're dealing with an undeveloped and underdeveloped brain at times. You physically wouldn't be able to process many of the memories. More importantly, your personality *would* change in those early years.

Your sense of awareness wouldn't be maintained. Because of how the body works, you'd gradually regain your awareness while simultaneously being changed your "new" experiences. If this topic was about keeping your sense of awareness rather than just keeping your memories, your conjectures would hold water. However, he only specified knowledge (which, if we wanted to be very technical, could be viewed as being at least partly separate from memories despite memory being the storage system for knowledge). As such, it feels more a matter that you'd gradually grow into a hybrid version of your past self fused with your new experiences where gender would likely change your overall experience.

All that aside, obviously the experience would be more enjoyable if at least the first few years were skipped... is what I'd be saying if I knew for sure that was the case. However, I only have my fully-formed adult brain now and can't really register how my much-younger brain would view things because surely I had fun at that age and was amused by things that wouldn't necessarily amuse me now, a fact that I don't ascribe solely to having more life experience vis-a-vis memories.

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Zeus
01/07/20 1:46:33 AM
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Also the whole time travel thing is a coin flip. I think I'd prefer a reincarnation system where I'd start a new life upon death, unless there was something I absolutely had to change and had nothing that I didn't want to risk accidentally changing.

The key benefit as I see it isn't just a matter of having future-knowledge that I could potentially exploit, but also gaining an added lifespan. Plus if you're going to be the opposite sex, the advantages for women are so much stronger now because traditional drawbacks have been mitigated or removed. Outside of physical elements, they have more advantages than men because they keep all of the traditional social protections while picking up even more protections and opportunities.

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NejiHyuga900
01/13/20 12:26:11 AM
#33:


Well, that would be quite an experimentation. I think I would give it a shot (if my current lifespan were to come to an end, that is). If I were to become a female, I think I would go "tomboy".

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Unbridled9
01/13/20 1:06:17 AM
#34:


NejiHyuga900 posted...
Well, that would be quite an experimentation. I think I would give it a shot (if my current lifespan were to come to an end, that is). If I were to become a female, I think I would go "tomboy".

You know you could also just... give in and accept your new life as a woman as opposed to trying to be as close to a man as possible.

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LinkPizza
01/13/20 1:14:18 AM
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Unbridled9 posted...
You know you could also just... give in and accept your new life as a woman as opposed to trying to be as close to a man as possible.

You could. Though, that would be hard for many people who have lived a full life as a man. Or for people who wouldn't want to be a woman...
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wolfy42
01/13/20 1:18:14 AM
#36:


Not if it was the same parents. If I was a girl my mother might have touched me (she didn't like touching anyone, but especially guys), but probably not, and I can't even start to imagine...actually I can....what growing up in the places I did as a girl would have been like.

Diff family though, sure...actually i'd take just getting to be a kid in a family and then I'd have another shot at actually having my own when I grow up. Man or woman, that is what I would really want.

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wwinterj25
01/13/20 1:57:45 AM
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While it would be appealing for me to feel like a woman I don't think I'd want that as permanent thing. If I have the same knowledge I have now than chances are I'd want the same things out of life and childbirth doesn't sound great and neither does bleeding every month. Having a penis is my preference.

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wolfy42
01/13/20 2:24:32 AM
#38:


wwinterj25 posted...
While it would be appealing for me to feel like a woman I don't think I'd want that as permanent thing. If I have the same knowledge I have now than chances are I'd want the same things out of life and childbirth doesn't sound great and neither does bleeding every month. Having a penis is my preference.


Been awhile since they had birth control that prevents periods for women (and pregnancy for that matter), so depending on your age, that might not have been an issue.

I'm guessing you end up with the same family etc, just as a girl instead of a boy, so I think the family dynamic you grew up with would make a huge difference (along with the people where you live etc).

Some parts of the world you do NOT want to be a woman even today.


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wwinterj25
01/13/20 3:27:06 AM
#39:


wolfy42 posted...
Been awhile since they had birth control that prevents periods for women (and pregnancy for that matter), so depending on your age, that might not have been an issue.

True enough. It would still be a additional step I'd need to take as to not bleed every month regardless though. Also as I said I'd want kids one day an childbirth isn't appealing. While I'll always be curious of how it's like to be the opposite sex it's not something I'd want as a permanent thing as I see no benefit in that.

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mooreandrew58
01/13/20 6:44:07 AM
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I consider myself moderately attractive. Like maybe a 6.5-7 range. Would I be guranteed the same level of attractivness as a female? Only change id ask for is a decent sized ass if i gotta be a girl cause as a dude I dont have much of one. If I can have those things id strongly consider it.

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wolfy42
01/13/20 7:13:24 AM
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undefined posted...
I consider myself moderately attractive. Like maybe a 6.5-7 range. Would I be guranteed the same level of attractivness as a female? Only change id ask for is a decent sized ass if i gotta be a girl cause as a dude I dont have much of one. If I can have those things id strongly consider it.


You do know that most 4 or 5's even can use makeup to look like 8's or 9's pretty easy. So yeah, unless your really bad, you can probably end up much more attractive as a female, and if your a 6-7 currently, you could be smokin, I mean, probably not a 10, but you could at least jump up to an 8 or maybe a 9 if you worked at it.

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mooreandrew58
01/13/20 7:30:32 AM
#43:


wolfy42 posted...
You do know that most 4 or 5's even can use makeup to look like 8's or 9's pretty easy. So yeah, unless your really bad, you can probably end up much more attractive as a female, and if your a 6-7 currently, you could be smokin, I mean, probably not a 10, but you could at least jump up to an 8 or maybe a 9 if you worked at it.

So yeah if i could also have a decent ass id strongly consider it

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LinkPizza
01/13/20 7:33:19 AM
#44:


Sounds like mooreandrew58 just wants that ass one way or another. Haha.
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Kyuubi4269
01/13/20 7:35:14 AM
#45:


mooreandrew58 posted...


So yeah if i could also have a decent ass id strongly consider it

Just do squats.
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mooreandrew58
01/13/20 7:36:28 AM
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LinkPizza posted...
Sounds like mooreandrew58 just wants that ass one way or another. Haha.

Yeah. Im a bottom. but ugly as fuck with a decent ass woulf be a no go.

Kyuubi4269 posted...
Just do squats.

I'm too lazy unfortunately

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LinkPizza
01/13/20 7:47:33 AM
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mooreandrew58 posted...
Yeah. Im a bottom. but ugly as fuck with a decent ass woulf be a no go.

Im a top, so Im more about penetrating more than being penetrated. So, keeping my memories and going back would be a no-go for me... Erasing my memories and going back in time after I died would just be like a totally new life. So, I guess that would be fine... depending...
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mooreandrew58
01/13/20 7:52:16 AM
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LinkPizza posted...
Im a top, so Im more about penetrating more than being penetrated. So, keeping my memories and going back would be a no-go for me... Erasing my memories and going back in time after I died would just be like a totally new life. So, I guess that would be fine... depending...

Yeah I know women have their issues but ive lived and seen the perks of being a man. Id be interested in expierencing the perks of being a decent looking girl. Maintaing my personality and knowledge I wouldnt be as bothered by at least verbal sexual harrassment as some women so id have that perk as well.

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hypnox
01/13/20 7:55:15 AM
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No, because it's not clear if you travel back in time AND space. Earth isnt where it was when I was born so I dont wanna be a baby in the middle of space.

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wolfy42
01/13/20 8:38:34 AM
#50:


hypnox posted...
No, because it's not clear if you travel back in time AND space. Earth isnt where it was when I was born so I dont wanna be a baby in the middle of space.


Lol, I like you.

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Trollface11321
01/13/20 9:07:31 AM
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all i gotta do now is wait until im back at my current age when i see this topic and then hit yes as female then come back as a male so nothing changes except now i know the future.

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