I thought Terminus was privy to some inside information about Innate - I had always assumed that Innate was a man, so I was surprised at seeing Terminus refer to him/her as "her".
Do men and women write differently? If they don't expressedly refer to themselves with a gender-defining title, can one nonetheless figure out their chromosone composition?
I should think yes - for the most part. Looking back on some classical lit, I think there may be some exceptions - for example, reading Pride and Predjudice one might think the story was written by a man. It deals entirely with love relationships and marriage, and family matters, but it has a male-writer feel to it. But if one reads Madame Bovary, one has the impression (ok, I have the impression) that it was written by a female. Certainly, of course, the endings of the two stories betray the authors a bit as to their true genders - unless the authors realized that (assuming that the first was a male and the second a female) and composed the endings precisely to "fool" the audience.
Alternatively, I'm nuts, and there is no way to distinguish between male and female writers.
From the posts I guessed that Innate is a male. I cannot guess as to the age (if I had to venture, I might say between 35 - 55), but the level of education is quite high (Masters or highier in Philosophy, Sociology, or perhaps Education. But then again I remember some computer code Innate posted one time, so perhaps something to do with Technology?). Despite negating it, Innate is well-read, and enjoys quality SF (but that’s not very insightful seeing how this is a Lem board and all…). Very curious about life, willing to explore many things – currently interested in Poland, perhaps all of middle-eastern Europe and Slavs altogether. I’ll stop there before Innate laughs him/herself to death at my attempts at physical/psychological profiling.