critical minds want to know the answer to this question
Countable infinite. Infinite because there are infinite possibilities. (Spectrum) Countable because the number of human beings is countable.
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I just respect everyone and never assume their identity is what I initially (subconsciously?) think. It took a long time to get there, but I just take every person as a person worthy of respect and dignity as my default.
I’m way overthinking this, but I’m going with finite. It could be an unfathomably large number, but gender is a human construct and there are a finite number of humans. Let’s say each human that ever lives has a unique gender identity - there could be billions or trillions, but it would still be finite.
what about Genders Georg, who lives in a cave and has uncountably many genders all by xemself?
I thought something similar, but the human brain is finite, so I don’t think a single person could have an uncountably infinite gender; unfathomably large, maybe, but it would still be finite.
Edit: I’m not trying to be bigoted here. If someone does identify that way I don’t want to discredit your identity.
A single human brain is finite, but the possible configurations of neurons across any possible hypothetical brain is decidedly infinite.
I’m no mathematician, but I don’t think that’s how it works. A quick Google says there are 100 billion neurons. So you would have
100000000000!possible combinations, unfathomably large, but finite. Granted, a human brain is more complex than the configuration of neurons, but I don’t know how it becomes infinite.I’m also way past the point of overthinking this.
yeah, but the relative positions and relative lengths and relative widths and relative densities and relative conductivities of those neurons are real numbers
Now we are getting into the quantum physics question of if the universe is discrete or continuous. Which seems to be unsolved.
So I guess that’s my answer. If the universe is discrete then there are finite genders, and if it’s continuous then there could be infinite genders.
I fucking love where this went, as I was thinking the exact same responses while reading this thread! Love it when a question about gender results in fundamental ideas surrounding mathematics and the nature of reality.
but you could birth a new person who didn’t fit that finite number
there will always be a hypothetical new person who could exist
me, pedantically giving birth to a new child in order to prove the n+1 case
Countries have been trying gamification and incentivization to increase birth rates, when they should have been appealing to our pedantic impulses all along.
A finite number of genders will be experienced by people, but there are an uncountably infinite number of genders.
The set of genders is like the real number line. You can throw a dart at it and pick out a new gender for every person, but you will never be able to throw enough darts to exhaust the set, even given infinite time.
Does the set of all genders contain itself?
I’m glad to know that I’ve reached peak beehaw today.
That’s a hell of a question, buddy
“decides”
How arrogant are you? You don’t get to decide shit.
sorry too late they already decided!
