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I can easily identify whether or not I'm hungry... and probably whether or not I'm smart. I can't easily identify whether or not I'm neurodivergent, because I'

• bawolff 4y ago
  > I can't easily identify whether or not I'm neurodivergent, because I'm not sure what it means or what the opposite would look like. Does anybody know? The people who are claiming to be neruodivergent would say its quite obvious to themselves (FWIW, the general definition is roughly ADHD or Autism, both of which have more concrete definitions). I was assuming the statement was about other people verifying the veracity of the statement not yourself. Of course, i don't know how you can easily identify if you are actually hungry, when you can't even tell if you actually have a stomach or are just a brain in a vat/plugged into the matrix.
  • unsupp0rted 4y ago
    Even if I'm a brain in a vat, I'm a brain in a vat that thinks it's hungry. But I'm not a brain in a vat that thinks it's neurodivergent or not neurodivergent because it doesn't know what that would mean in the first place, and it's not sure anybody else (assuming other brains in other vats exist) does either.
    • jrm4 4y ago
      Exactly. I'm thinking of other diseases and other conditions. Like "has covid" or "very likely does not have covid" are verifiable or falsifiable enough for the situation even if you occasionally get it wrong. Neurodivergent? Probably easy to find clear yeses, sure. But I'm guessing all of your clear yeses there have things that have other, clearer, names.
    • bawolff 4y ago
      Not knowing the definition of a word is unrelated to how falsifiable it is.