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Each plant can be different from the next. The tacoing tells us it's way too hot at the leaf (looks like HPS lighting, which can do that). You will get more informed responses if you can provide more info and use a better light for pictures.

Looks like some nanners. That's fairly early in flower to see them. Is the plant stressed?

I wish I could lead several lives and do it all. As it is, I have to watch the monkey stick a blade of grass into the anthill first.

I am with you on this. If a human brain is a meat computer, calling it that is misleading. I don't think it functions like a binary electronic computer. Might as well use a different word. Transducer? Perhaps, but what is it channeling (as trans- would suggest)? I spent my lunch thinking about...

I have had multiple out-of-body experiences of different kinds. I have had a dream that lasted years, and upon waking I had to spend several minutes breathing heavily while getting my bearings and figuring out where reality stopped and the dream started. I have had muliple other dreams that have...

Perhaps. Our evolution hasn't prepared us for such scale, so far and generally speaking. Yes, so much of what is here strikes me as conjecture. But this is way fun. It stretches that boundary! My biggest takeaway so far is that we could all, from you to Fogdog, be spectacularly wrong about AI...

Agreed. Note edit.

A different kind of "mind." AI seems to be giving us another point of reference to understand our own brains/minds/perceptions. Open discussion and letting go of human-dominance theories has led scientists to research non-human living minds (e.g., plants and animals). AI minds would be on a...

Well, my wondering aloud was clunky. As I understand current AI, the Theory of Mind would have to be programmed. But I wonder if AI self-awareness looks different than human self-awareness. The more I hear from Fogdog, the more I realize how generally internalized popular ideas of AI are - and...

Makes me wonder if AI currently has the capability to understand the Theory of Mind. Any of you read the sci-fi book, "Biblical?"

Also, AI could be dangerous without achieving self-awareness.

Reminds me of The Prophets in Deep Space Nine having no concept of linear time. Time is variable, at the very least. With the Theory of Relativity requiring GPS satellites' onboard time-keeping devices to measure time differently to stay in sync with those on Earth's surface, time must also be...

These types of experiences are subjective so I tend to agree. I have recorded myself on a transcendental acid trip. Sober listening showed some serious paranoid schizophenic bullshit. But those experiences still changed my life in fundamental, beneficial ways I doubt would have happened...

So small. Can I get a gender?

I don't know the answer to this question. But I find AI (as it's colloquially known) alarming. Since I don't know, I don't get too worked up, but I find myself more in the Hawking camp. My first experience with AI was a chat script programmed by a staggering genius of an acquaintance back in...

Thank you for this. I discovered a few logical disconnects after making it about 2/3 of the way through as I realized they were right about needing to better understand the minds of others. They should have gone and done that immediately instead of continuing the conversation. And I think that...