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🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 128 minutes
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0:00.0 | If my answers frighten you, Vincent, then you should cease asking scary questions. |
0:17.0 | A quote from the film Pulp Fiction, |
0:22.0 | Is gender a social construct? I can help you to answer this question for yourself |
0:31.0 | in a non-ideological, non-belief-based way, |
0:36.7 | but that can only happen if you are genuinely |
0:40.6 | interested in knowing the answer, in understanding the answer, and also thinking |
0:47.6 | deeply about the question and not taking it for granted. |
0:52.0 | This question is much deeper than most people understand. It's an |
0:57.5 | extremely deep question that takes us into the nature of reality and existence and the mind itself. |
1:09.2 | So the question is, how badly do you really want to know? |
1:15.4 | Or are you just looking for me to validate your pre-existing belief? |
1:34.3 | Notice that there's a difference between arguing based on this question, which is mostly what you'll find on YouTube, is people arguing based on this arguing based on this question either pro or con arguing it from an ideological position from things they've heard other |
1:40.8 | people say whether it's their professors or teachers or people they look up to |
1:44.8 | public intellectuals or just whatever their preconceived intuitions are. |
1:50.8 | And of course the difficulty with probing this question, this is a philosophical question, the difficulty with probing it is that you have to actually be serious about doing philosophy. |
2:01.0 | Because you already have a preconceived answer, a bias depending on what |
2:07.8 | culture you grew up in as to what the answer is and for the majority of people it's obvious of course there's men and |
2:16.7 | there's women and that's just how it is science says so it's physical it's |
2:22.3 | biological there are chromosomes to even question these things |
2:26.5 | is absurd. |
2:43.5 | So notice that you're not coming into this question neutrally with a genuine desire for the truth. You're coming into this question |
2:45.3 | with a lot of preconceived ideas. |
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