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Come now, why doesn't Brennan take an experimental approach: kick him or her where the balls would be, and appraise the reaction? I mean, this is a conspiracy of scientists, not Aristotelian scholastics.
Because, as my daughter learned the other day, that still hurts. Also, the person could have been a non- or pre-op transsexual woman (leaving out other variants merely for brevity).
Maybe a different experimental method...
Edit: See also: Tim_Tayler's comment above re: hidden prior.
My understanding is that while the pain is not all that different in degree it is different in nature. I haven't tested it but I suspect that taking a suitable sample would allow you to generate a reliable heuristic for differentiation.
Yes, different tests are likely required for determining either private self concept or publicly acknowledged identity than those that determine physical characteristics.