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WCDT Strips 3536 to 3540 (31st July to 4th August 2017)
SmilingCat:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 07 Aug 2017, 03:01 ---Purely hypothetical question: Does anyone think that there are hermaphrodite intersex chassis as well as androgynous ones for non-binary AIs?
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AIs have the unique advantage of not having their initial appearance determined by genes. Presumably, if you're willing to spend the money, you can get any type of chassis you want.
Market force determines how cheap it would be, however. If there isn't enough demand to warrant mass production, any exotic variations would probably have to be custom made at a higher price.
celticgeek:
Check with Union Robotics - they do custom genital work.
Cornelius:
I'm not sure. Hermaphrodite denotes both sets of genitals, and Im not sure that is the same as intersex. Especially with application to chassis. But I may be wrong.
SmilingCat:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 18 Aug 2017, 10:01 ---I'm not sure. Hermaphrodite denotes both sets of genitals, and Im not sure that is the same as intersex. Especially with application to chassis. But I may be wrong.
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Intersex is sufficiently broadly defined to cover that.
flondrix:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 18 Aug 2017, 10:08 ---
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 18 Aug 2017, 10:01 ---I'm not sure. Hermaphrodite denotes both sets of genitals, and Im not sure that is the same as intersex. Especially with application to chassis. But I may be wrong.
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Intersex is sufficiently broadly defined to cover that.
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The term hermaphrodite is nowadays considered inappropriate in reference to humans. Biologists use the word hermaphrodite to refer to individuals that can produce both spermatazoa and ova, though not necessarily at the same time, and they exist in several phyla. Even some vertebrates (certain fish and amphibians) can change biological sex, though so far as I know only once and only in one direction. (If anyone has better data, please chime in.) So far as I know there are no functional hermaphrodites among mammals. There are individuals with ambiguous external genitalia, but no one with functioning ovaries and uterus can produce viable spermatazoa, and no individual born without a uterus can develop one later on. The guevedoces of the Dominican Republic are sometimes called pseudohermaphrodites, because they are born with undescended testes and lack internal female reproductive organs.
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