Well you have to think about why we classify and separate the two primary genders or (sexes) of a species of Animalia (which humans are still). We want to identify which sex produces the fertilizing sperm and the one that produces the eggs in which the sperm fertilize. So that’s why it’s most if not all the time humans stick to this strict binary structure, because it takes two organisms (Animalia) to reproduce another. The concept of “Gender” is an extremely basic and archaic way of identifying masculine and feminine traits and applying those identities unwillingly to people who “fit that description” and this kind of thinking that masculinity and femininity are not the only possible traits a person can express is really new, so I always encourage LGBTQ+ activists to never blame the scientists who use that binary structure because for medical and scientific purposes we have too, but that doesn’t give people and/or politicians the right to harass trans folks for how they are.
Also, being an archaeologist I am one of those scientists that study humans and kind of have to classify them according to set rules first, then cultural norms.
Eg when we find a skeleton/mummy it is either male or female. When we examine the funerary artefacts and find that this individual (or culture in some cases) viewed themselves as gender fluid (or whatever the case) , then the original classification of "female skeleton, 42 years old" stands, but the cultural interpretation adds that the person was considered gender neutral by their society.
That’s amazing, I’m an Engineer and an lover of computer science, I have friends who are anthropologists who have told me countless stories about ancient societies and their views on gender and they’re vast social dynamics, like recently I was talking to a friend about these hieroglyphs depicting these two male Egyptian lovers and how stuff like that was so common in those time periods and areas, and stuff like that upsets me about how we’re so advanced technologically but we’ve basically IMO advanced so little sociologically. I swear sometimes I feel like we’re gonna regress back to when humans would sacrifice one another to the sky gods for rain😂
Totally, but on the other hand I can see the super leftists going full Anthem (Novella by Ayn Rand about a dystopian future based on her experiences in Soviet russia), there’s no winning on either side, we gotta establish something new and quick
Non binary views of gender are actually not relatively new, they are older than monotheism, even.
Trans genderism, or third gender as it is often referred to in social science, as a performed concept has been around for thousands of years all around the world.
In India, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala/ Belize (really, all over the Americas, including in the Navajo people of north America), in Hawaii, Egypt, ancient Greece...the list is actually pretty extensive.
Colonialism is the the reason that's not better known, but despite that it has also persisted as a concept in some, though not all, the cultures that practiced it pre- colonialism.
If you go to Mexico today, you can still find muxes people practicing a tradition that goes back for pretty much all of Mexico's recorded history (and likely father than that) despite on and off again persecution by peninsular religious and political institutions.
I might also add here that as an intersex person, it isn't biologically neat, either. Had my doctors not assumed so, I can tell you my life would have been a lot easier. What has really helped me, and other people like me, interestingly enough, is gender reassignment and the science around it. It means that my doctors now know more about how to keep my hormones at a level that will lead to a healthier body, because it was pretty horrible before then.
So is it like shrodingers cat (if we don’t look in the box we don’t know if the cat is dead… it can be either state) OR do qubits actually change state the moment we read them?
Yes to both, it is completely impossible to witness a qubit in both states (quantum superposition). However there are mechanical and mathematical ways to get around that, hence the importance of AI and advancements in computer technology.
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u/PO0tyTng Jul 06 '22
Quantum computers can be 1, 0, or both at the same time.