tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8788527586464580894.post5287420482468913265..comments2023-07-31T17:06:20.955-05:00Comments on Science and Sexuality: The Biology of Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Intersexuality.: “Disordered or Just Different” presentation at National Women’s Music FestivalVeronica Drantz, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03459966721114852508noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8788527586464580894.post-90231506437633300612010-07-18T20:37:36.100-05:002010-07-18T20:37:36.100-05:00Hi Curtis,
Thanks for your words of encouragement....Hi Curtis,<br />Thanks for your words of encouragement. They mean a lot to me since they come from a hero such as yourself.Veronica Drantz, PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03459966721114852508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8788527586464580894.post-91991770097617295242010-07-18T20:35:08.990-05:002010-07-18T20:35:08.990-05:00Hi Zoe,
Sorry about my late response. I’m trying ...Hi Zoe,<br />Sorry about my late response. I’m trying to finish my teaching responsibilities so I can vacation during August before starting again in September.<br /> <br />Yes, my talk was indeed a sharp contrast with the mostly “spiritual” workshops that are so common at lesbian festivals such as the National Women’s Music Festival. But my presentation was well-received just as it was last year and I made important contacts.<br /><br />I know exactly what you mean about the ubiquitous patterns and fractal nature of nature that are the reasons that we can hope to understand nature. Intellectually and aesthetically, the scientific story is always far more beautiful and satisfying than any other. That’s why I am a secular humanist, and why I feel it necessary to give my presentations at venues where you don’t expect any science. For example, I will refute the “womyn-born-womyn” policy again this August at MichFest (where else?). I think that the scientific process and the attempt to understand nature is the ultimate spiritual activity.Veronica Drantz, PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03459966721114852508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8788527586464580894.post-21441235027731817072010-07-12T16:41:40.737-05:002010-07-12T16:41:40.737-05:00Keep up your great work. I really appreciate your...Keep up your great work. I really appreciate your knowledge and your willingness to speak up!<br /><br />Kind regards,<br />Curtis E. HinkleOII: http://www.intersexualite.org/https://www.blogger.com/profile/00154389642578705000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8788527586464580894.post-45550572054295193192010-07-10T17:38:28.685-05:002010-07-10T17:38:28.685-05:00How did it go? Your presentations must have create...How did it go? Your presentations must have created quite a contrast with the various forms of faith healing being presented.<br /><br />I find it very difficult to keep an open mind about such things, and accord them the respect they deserve.<br /><br />Here am I at GECCO, the genetic and evolutionary computation conference in Portland, Oregon, and I'm aware of the numinous alright. I can't avoid it. But I see it in our progressive understanding of processes within the cell - that if we'd understood more biology, we wouldn't have to invent logic gates and flip-flops, the components of CPUs, as they're already inside every cell in our bodies - though implemented in Ribosomes and proteins.<br /><br />I see it in models of our neurology, and in the robot controllers patterned on that.<br /><br />I see it in people talking about implementations <i>in vivo</i>, <i>in vitro</i>, and <i>in silico</i>, interchangeably. Patterns with commonalities within cells, within brains, within societies, within ecologies.<br /><br />One can't help but be affected in a very spiritual sense when the fractal nature of nature is revealed. Or at least, I can't.Zoe Brainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.com