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His_Highness
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
Hey, I bought this great thing on sale and saved $5. I may never use it though.
ChooChooCharlie
Well-Known Member
My one year FC anniversary!
Still vaping with my Plenty. I know, I know. Leave me alone, it looks just fine. Stop it, stop laughing!
Have enjoyed being here on FC this past year, so I want to give back by sharing this.
Had to trade an underground VHS tape titled "David Hasselhoff's Barnyard Antics" to get this early Plenty video smuggled out of a vault in Tuttlingen, Germany -- a never before seen video clip showing beta testers with the first Plenty.
Still vaping with my Plenty. I know, I know. Leave me alone, it looks just fine. Stop it, stop laughing!
Have enjoyed being here on FC this past year, so I want to give back by sharing this.
Had to trade an underground VHS tape titled "David Hasselhoff's Barnyard Antics" to get this early Plenty video smuggled out of a vault in Tuttlingen, Germany -- a never before seen video clip showing beta testers with the first Plenty.
Silat
When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind.
Every time I see a Donald Trump clip I see Mickey Donovan. I can't not see and hear Mickey any more. And the scary bit is I'd trust him more...
And the irony is that Jon Voight is a staunch crazy rightwinger.
BD9
Well-Known Member
Thank you Amoreena. That means a lot to me. And thank you to everyone else.
gaseous_clay
Well-Known Member
Maybe I'm insane, but I just took a hit with my Whip-It through the vape.
grokit
well-worn member
Subjective mind, that is, sensations and thoughts and feelings and consciousness, seems a completely different thing from the cellular matter that gives rise to mind, so much so that Descartes concluded they were two entirely different kinds of stuff, mind and brain. Accordingly, he invented the "dualism" of the mind, the mind-body dichotomy. Body is one kind of thing, and mind (or spirit or soul) is another. But since this second kind of stuff does not lend itself to scientific inquiry, most of today's psychologists and neuroscientists have rejected Cartesian dualism.
They have had difficulty finding an alternative, however. The opposite position, monism, says there is only one kind of stuff, brain, and the sensations like the red of a tomato simply represent the pattern of activation of certain brain cells. Many people find this simple monism unsatisfactory, though, because it does not really deal with the fact that the red of a tomato and a pattern of activation in region V4 of the visual system seem so very different. Bridging that difference is what neuroscience calls "the hard problem."
Neuropsychoanalysis meets this challenge via dual-aspect monism, sometimes referred to as perspectivism. That is, we are monistic. Our brains, including mind, are made of one kind of stuff, cells, but we perceive this stuff in two different ways.
One is the neuroscientists' "objective" way. They dissect the brain with scalpel and microscope or look at it with brain scans and then trace neurochemical pathways. Neurology observes "mind" from outside, that is, by means of the neurological examination: questionnaires, the Boston Naming test or Wisconsin Sorting, bisecting lines, acting out how you use a screwdriver, and so on. Neurologists can compare the changes in psychological function that the neurological examination shows with the associated changes in the brain, either post mortem or by means of modern imaging technology.
The other way is the layman's or Descartes' or the psychoanalysts' way. We can observe "subjectively," from inside a mind, how we feel and what we think. Freud refined this kind of observation into free association. He claimed and a century of therapy confirms that this is the best technique that we have for perceiving complex mental functions that simple introspection will not reveal. Through psychoanalysis, we can discover mind's unconscious functioning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychoanalysis
They have had difficulty finding an alternative, however. The opposite position, monism, says there is only one kind of stuff, brain, and the sensations like the red of a tomato simply represent the pattern of activation of certain brain cells. Many people find this simple monism unsatisfactory, though, because it does not really deal with the fact that the red of a tomato and a pattern of activation in region V4 of the visual system seem so very different. Bridging that difference is what neuroscience calls "the hard problem."
Neuropsychoanalysis meets this challenge via dual-aspect monism, sometimes referred to as perspectivism. That is, we are monistic. Our brains, including mind, are made of one kind of stuff, cells, but we perceive this stuff in two different ways.
One is the neuroscientists' "objective" way. They dissect the brain with scalpel and microscope or look at it with brain scans and then trace neurochemical pathways. Neurology observes "mind" from outside, that is, by means of the neurological examination: questionnaires, the Boston Naming test or Wisconsin Sorting, bisecting lines, acting out how you use a screwdriver, and so on. Neurologists can compare the changes in psychological function that the neurological examination shows with the associated changes in the brain, either post mortem or by means of modern imaging technology.
The other way is the layman's or Descartes' or the psychoanalysts' way. We can observe "subjectively," from inside a mind, how we feel and what we think. Freud refined this kind of observation into free association. He claimed and a century of therapy confirms that this is the best technique that we have for perceiving complex mental functions that simple introspection will not reveal. Through psychoanalysis, we can discover mind's unconscious functioning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychoanalysis
GetLeft
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Silat
When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind.
Random thought that you will find this funny....
Text from the encounter:
https://imgur.com/a/skffp
Follow up:
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local/judge-criticized-for-vulgar-courtoom-exchange/nr7Hr/
Text from the encounter:
https://imgur.com/a/skffp
Follow up:
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local/judge-criticized-for-vulgar-courtoom-exchange/nr7Hr/
Hardware/software.Subjective mind, that is, sensations and thoughts and feelings and consciousness, seems a completely different thing from the cellular matter that gives rise to mind, so much so that Descartes concluded they were two entirely different kinds of stuff, mind and brain. Accordingly, he invented the "dualism" of the mind, the mind-body dichotomy. Body is one kind of thing, and mind (or spirit or soul) is another. But since this second kind of stuff does not lend itself to scientific inquiry, most of today's psychologists and neuroscientists have rejected Cartesian dualism.
They have had difficulty finding an alternative, however. The opposite position, monism, says there is only one kind of stuff, brain, and the sensations like the red of a tomato simply represent the pattern of activation of certain brain cells. Many people find this simple monism unsatisfactory, though, because it does not really deal with the fact that the red of a tomato and a pattern of activation in region V4 of the visual system seem so very different. Bridging that difference is what neuroscience calls "the hard problem."
Neuropsychoanalysis meets this challenge via dual-aspect monism, sometimes referred to as perspectivism. That is, we are monistic. Our brains, including mind, are made of one kind of stuff, cells, but we perceive this stuff in two different ways.
One is the neuroscientists' "objective" way. They dissect the brain with scalpel and microscope or look at it with brain scans and then trace neurochemical pathways. Neurology observes "mind" from outside, that is, by means of the neurological examination: questionnaires, the Boston Naming test or Wisconsin Sorting, bisecting lines, acting out how you use a screwdriver, and so on. Neurologists can compare the changes in psychological function that the neurological examination shows with the associated changes in the brain, either post mortem or by means of modern imaging technology.
The other way is the layman's or Descartes' or the psychoanalysts' way. We can observe "subjectively," from inside a mind, how we feel and what we think. Freud refined this kind of observation into free association. He claimed and a century of therapy confirms that this is the best technique that we have for perceiving complex mental functions that simple introspection will not reveal. Through psychoanalysis, we can discover mind's unconscious functioning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychoanalysis
You can't pull out the hard drive of a computer and stick it into a different computer and have it function... but you can upload similar software to both.
You can exchange cooling fans, ram, exc if compatible .... but they are still two different computers. ... you can add hard drive space.... but it still has to be filled with "stuff" to function.... you can't hear a song you never download....
Body or brain if you will... hardware....
Mind .... software.
Are we just computers? Squishy fleshy computers with very advanced OS?
I think I need a ram upgrade....
Squiby
Well-Known Member
grokit
well-worn member
this guy...
I think I may need a new OS...
The hippocampal dentate gyrus in the adult mammalian brain contains neural stem/progenitor cells (NS/PCs) capable of generating new neurons, i.e., neurogenesis. Most drugs of abuse examined to date decrease adult hippocampal neurogenesis, but the effects of cannabis (marijuana or cannabinoids) on hippocampal neurogenesis remain unknown. This study aimed at investigating the potential regulatory capacity of the potent synthetic cannabinoid HU210 on hippocampal neurogenesis and its possible correlation with behavioral change. We show that both embryonic and adult rat hippocampal NS/PCs are immunoreactive for CB1 cannabinoid receptors, indicating that cannabinoids could act on CB1 receptors to regulate neurogenesis. This hypothesis is supported by further findings that HU210 promotes proliferation, but not differentiation, of cultured embryonic hippocampal NS/PCs likely via a sequential activation of CB1 receptors, Gi/o proteins, and ERK signaling. Chronic, but not acute, HU210 treatment promoted neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus of adult rats and exerted anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects. X-irradiation of the hippocampus blocked both the neurogenic and behavioral effects of chronic HU210 treatment, suggesting that chronic HU210 treatment produces anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects likely via promotion of hippocampal neurogenesis.
And that's not even new news. This is from back in '05
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/25509
CarolKing
Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
I made some medicated chocolate cupcakes this morning and used 3/4 cup Of cannaoil instead of a 1/3 cup of oil. I just used less water. I tried one because they looked sooooo good. I will wait to go grocery shopping. Not up to the task of driving.
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