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mtbturtle wrote:It made me read in multi colored text so I didn't get that far.
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BadgerJelly wrote:Someone mentioned this to me the other day and this is the first thing I found with a net search :
http://www.archania.org/index.php?page=mushrooms_and_evolution
Very interesting theory and wondered what you academics think about this intriguing idea?
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BadgerJelly wrote:What colour is Happiness?
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Forest_Dump wrote:Well like many hypotheses people have offered with regards to the deep past, this one may have some interest for those who want an interesting or alternative take on their reality but it leaves open what I think is a very important question: how do you/we find out if this actually happened? The answer, of course, is that it is virtually impossible to come up with any kind of direct evidence. Truth be told, although there are all kinds of speculations about the meaning of Pleistocene rock art (and I have a load of books on the subject), we really don't know and there are certainly great dangers in invoking analogies from North America, Africa or Australia.
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neuro wrote:I am sorry I did not go and visit the proposed site.
The use of language - and drawing and writing - is not based on particularly intense perception / imagination (or disperception / delusion); rather, it depends on the ability to extract schemes and features from reality, and therefore on generalization. Conceptualization and symbolic activity are fundamentally based on such generalization, and constitute the ground for abstract thought.
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ubericon wrote:If hallucinogens produce synesthetic experiences, then maybe words like "hotness" come from the usage of hallucinogens.
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neuro » April 10th, 2012, 4:30 am wrote:II would be more careful in deriving the history of thought and language from metaphoric and anedoctical observations.
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mitchellmckain » April 7th, 2018, 6:20 pm wrote:I agree with neuro but more so. I am in fact extremely hostile to this drivel. The basic premise here is that the only mysterious phenomena (or departure from reality) must be a product of hallucinogenic drugs. !
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wolfhnd » April 7th, 2018, 6:33 pm wrote:Sure, there is a necessary balance between chaos and order. I'm not a fan of hallucinatory drugs myself but people do get stuck in ruts.
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mitchellmckain » April 7th, 2018, 6:20 pm wrote:I A departure from reality is already found in dreams. And all that mysterious phenomenon require is the simple acknowledgement of all the things in every age that science as not been able to explain.
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BadgerJelly » March 26th, 2012, 3:16 am wrote:Someone mentioned this to me the other day and this is the first thing I found with a net search :
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wolfhnd » April 8th, 2018, 1:56 am wrote:I don't suppose anyone is interested in my explanation of how error is a prerequisite for thought. :-)
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Zanthius » Sun Apr 08, 2018 8:56 am wrote:wolfhnd » April 8th, 2018, 1:56 am wrote:I don't suppose anyone is interested in my explanation of how error is a prerequisite for thought. :-)
I don't think any serious researchers of psilocybin think that it works only by generating errors in our neural processing, but even if that was the case, errors are necessary to generate variation in evolutionary algorithms. If there are evolutionary algorithms operating in the brain, those algorithms would need errors in order to generate variation, much like random DNA mutations are necessary for biological evolution.
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