I am a brain in a jar: AMA

[theilltemperedqueenofspacetime]

Now that I have your attention (hopefully), I have an AIBU. I come from the future, and, having lived as an Earth woman for many years in the 20th and 21st centuries, I then became a disembodied brain in a jar for the last one thousand years. Soon, medics will have perfected the technology to transplant me into a body, although I don't know yet whether it will be human, and, if so, whether it will be male or female.

My question is, am I a woman, or just a brain with some memories of being one? How is it possible to be female without a female body?

IABU - I will always be a woman, no matter what.

IANBU - I am a brain in a jar. If they give me a male human body, I will be a man.

😂

I love this place. Merry fucking Christmas.

wouldn't worry about it - a lot of people claim to be women without a womans body

you can be whatever you want princess

Why did I click on this?

I think you would be a woman.
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Does your jar have one if those 'safety button' things so one can tell if it has been tampered with?

Nothing. I'm a brain. David Beckham was never knighted, but he was Prince Consort to Victoria II, Queen of the Britons, for several hundred years after The War.

You are being very very unreasonable.

Are you feeling ok? 😂

No longer satisfied with mere Christmas debates...she's been on Wikipedia googling cryogenic brain transplants! 😂

My question is, am I a woman, or just a brain with some memories of being one? How is it possible to be female without a female body?

Depends. How do you feel about eating salad 5x a week, including as a main course on Christmas day?

Where is butterfly 🧚🏻‍♂️when you need them?

How are you typing if you are just a brain?

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2022/11/15/from-brain-waves-to-real-time-text-messaging/

Obviously there have been advances in the last millennium

I think you need to put the sherry down

Don’t know about the sex thing.

BUT, more importantly, are there flying bicycles? Do we live under the sea? Is it worth investing in my pension ?

I am a jar with a brain in it, and just wanted to say 'hello'

I think your 1000 years in a jar with no connection to the outside world or social contact will have made you hallucinate and destroyed your sense of self to the extent that you are no longer a woman or a man. you probably don't even remember your name or any aspects of your original identity.

however, if you can re-do your origin story such that you were Sheila yesterday and now you've been transplanted into Nick's body (poor Nick died in a car crash) and after a week in the ITU you have come round and are ready to explore the world, well, now we have an interesting challenge. You have Sheila's memories and socialisation etc but you have the physical body of a man. but do you now have male desires?

The brain carries male or female chromosomes, so you remain female

You'll be a cat.

An amazing life

Even if the majority of your chromosomes are XX in the brain, if you’ve been pregnant with a boy, XY chromosomes can be detected in otherwise XX brain tissue. It’s called micro chimerism, and it’s fascinating
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4769858/#:~:text=Chan%20et%20al.%20reported%20that,of%20their%20mothers%20(5).

You'd be whatever you were born as

Fgs, what has this site become? Jarred Brain Dating? Plenty Of Synapses.com?

I'm a jar without anything in it whatsoever. Stop bragging!