Cognitive Determinism

A strong form of cognitive realism, arguing that our cognitive and nervous systems don't just shape but determine our experience of reality—that what we can know, perceive, and understand is strictly limited by the structure of human cognition. Cognitive Determinism holds that there are aspects of reality we cannot access because our brains didn't evolve to access them, questions we cannot think because our cognitive architecture doesn't support them, truths that are literally unthinkable. It's the position that the mind is not just a lens but a cage—that our cognitive inheritance both enables and limits what we can know. Cognitive Determinism is humbling: it suggests that the universe is likely far stranger than we can imagine, because we can only imagine what our brains allow.

Example: "He'd always assumed that human reason could eventually understand everything. Cognitive Determinism suggested otherwise: there might be truths his brain simply couldn't grasp, realities his cognition couldn't model. The universe was likely far stranger than he could imagine—not because he wasn't smart enough, but because he was human enough."

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r/detrans

A subreddit where cisgender people love to discriminate against trans people and mock them (+ drag queens and lgbtq+ people).

Trans Person: Wow! The r/detrans sub sure hates trans people!
r/detrans user: Well at least I'm normal you stupid tr****!! I'm gonna log onto 4chan and shit talk random trans people for using a medical term with my fellow fascists!!

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