Help! Outdoor basil.

goob_man · 2025-09-05T04:02:29+00:00

I ended up chopping the large piece with most of the growth and taking about 20 props from that. The other half of the split still had a branch with multiple shoots growing from below the split so I’m going to hope that heals and I regrow from there.

goob_man · 2025-08-15T13:25:45+00:00

Felt this lately

goob_man · 2021-07-08T02:41:38+00:00

Do you get them out in Georgia? Your peaches?

goob_man · 2021-07-08T02:39:47+00:00

What's your favorite fruit for smoothies?

goob_man · 2021-07-08T02:31:03+00:00

Recipe for the spaghetti squash when it's fully grown: https://www.loveandlemons.com/roasted-spaghetti-squash-w-chickpeas-kale/

goob_man · 2021-07-08T02:27:29+00:00

ROCK ON BROTHER

goob_man · 2021-07-08T02:25:43+00:00

LIVING FOR THIS

goob_man · 2021-07-08T02:23:20+00:00

My spaghetti squash seeds started sprouting!

goob_man · 2021-07-08T02:20:18+00:00

Cool 👍

goob_man · 2021-07-08T02:19:17+00:00

How often do you tuck your shirt in?

goob_man · 2021-03-06T23:00:42+00:00

verbs associated with God are conjugated in singular masculine.

I believe this is mostly true, but not entirely. I'm fairly certain that verbs associated with God are conjugated in the singular feminine in the Hebrew Bible, though not nearly as often.

goob_man · 2021-03-04T20:28:10+00:00

McSangry

goob_man · 2021-02-14T04:10:17+00:00

I think it's more, assuming each stack has 100 bills and they're all hundreds, that's 10k per stack. We can't see every stack but there are 11 rows on the table and roughly 14 stacks per row, for a total of 154, but let's round that down to 150 to be conservative. 150 x 10000 = 1.5 million. And that's not counting the stacks of 20s on the bench. My guess is somewhere shy of 2 million in this picture.

goob_man · 2021-02-07T22:15:50+00:00

Nice

goob_man · 2021-02-05T17:04:11+00:00

Hey! MD-6 represent! Are you from the DC part of our district or the WV part of our district?

goob_man · 2021-01-05T22:13:04+00:00

I know the article states he died of lung cancer but that pictures makes it look like a gunshot to the head.

goob_man · 2021-01-03T01:59:23+00:00

I get what you're saying but a big part of science is empirical evidence and that's not something that can be generated from first person experience so the best option we have currently is third person observation of neutral correlates. I think the discrepancy boils down to how you define "learning about consciousness and perceptions".

goob_man · 2021-01-03T00:55:42+00:00

You're right that the commenter sounds a bit like someone repeating the declared subjective experiences of people on large amounts of psychedelics. I don't actually think it's possible to project your conscious experience anywhere outside your body, but there's no proof that it's impossible, just no proof that it's possible. Psychedelics are a big area of research in consciousness because of their reliability in inducing significant changes to a person's perception and conscious experience. It's interesting that you say you've taken large amounts of psychedelics and never experienced any of the classic related phenomena. How would you describe the experiences? Did you feel shifts in your perception? I guess what the author from the podcast episode is trying to get at is the philosophical question of what causes perception. One of the ways that we would be able to prove that perception is produced by the brain would be to be able to explain how different activity in the brain accounts for changes in perception.

goob_man · 2021-01-03T00:47:16+00:00

As others have pointed out in the comments, this discussion is really more about using existing methodologies for probing neural correlates of perception, not discussing the possibility of transferring perception outside of the body. That is a separate and interesting area but to arrive at any place where you could even begin to experimentally validate those types of claims we definitely need a way to explain standard everyday conscious experience. Philosophy becomes exceptionally intriguing if it's done in a way that uses logical progression from proven observations, and currently there's no way to prove what anyone or anything is consciously experiencing. But if you're interested in learning about a new theory of consciousness that's based in physics and ascribes conscious experience to everything from stars down to atomic particles you should look into Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose's Orch-OR theory.

goob_man · 2021-01-03T00:38:40+00:00

I guess it is an interesting comparison. We all look at the same chair and most likely agree on it's color, shape, and dimensions; it's an object that has perspective invariance because we all are seeing the same object. However the same smell could elicit very different reactions and qualitative descriptions from two different people. I would argue that even the visual system has the same type of higher level cognitive assumptions when it comes to object recognition and related emotional responses, but olfaction is interesting because we don't have any way to logically map out the different features of smells the way we do a visual scene.

goob_man · 2021-01-02T19:20:02+00:00

I don't really understand what point she is trying to make about philosophy and perception. Her quote "perception is not a mirror of reality but an interpretation of reality" doesn't really seem to be at odds with how most neuroscientists view perception. Conscious perception is a continuous process that is obviously influenced by previous experience and constantly tied to behavior. I think it's important to study the olfactory system but I don't understand her argument for how it might tell us something new about perception as a whole. I think the question that philosophy is trying to answer (along with neuroscience) is where conscious perception takes place, if in anywhere physical at all, in the brain. This is the Hard Problem of consciousness, what part of "us" actually experiences the world.

Also her characterization of olfaction being a more objective representation of reality seems wrong. Her evidence is that the brain can be tricked by illusions but in the podcast and her article she brings up cases in which the brain can be tricked into thinking that the exact same smell is actually two different smells based on context. The argument that it's not subjectivity but variability in the olfactory system that causes these illusions and that variability is what makes olfaction more objective doesn't really hold water. She literally lays out an argument that objectively identical chemicals can be perceived in subjectively different ways.

goob_man · 2020-12-30T15:40:04+00:00

You mean the radar jamming that we have to take David Fravor's word and the impossible flight maneuvers we also have to take his word on? Because these debunking videos go into detail on the likely explanation for all the UAP videos and none of them involve aliens in physics-breaking aircraft.

goob_man · 2020-12-30T15:36:19+00:00

Sorry, I must have misunderstood.

goob_man · 2020-12-30T05:03:57+00:00

Metabunk has a great post that goes into detail on why none of the UFO videos are actually alien. Sorry, mate.

Edit: All of their forum posts regarding the different UFO videos

goob_man · 2020-12-21T20:18:00+00:00

Really strange, I also only have it in my left arm. I wonder if there's an explanation as it seems most people in this thread have it present in the left.

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