Milson
Great thread bud..
I've been a bit of a fly on the wall as of late..
Going through divorce, selling house..
flu..yada-yada.
It's life ...snakes and ladders...the down just make you appreciate the ups that much more.
I'm just living vicariously through you guys at the moment as I can't really chuck any beans until my transition is sorted.
Keep up the philosophical ponderings...
What cuts were you working Moe? Black...?
Anyway..Hope everyone is well..
Hi Mr. Toad,
Thanks so much for stopping in. I am sorry to hear about your time in the chute, as it were. Hope things turn a corner for ya here soon and it's up an escalator! I am always so grateful that anyone would bother to read all or even some of this.
To answer for Moe, he is referencing THC Victory. The phenos were color-coded.
A bit of philosophizing from your resident increasingly ghostly green blob:
I have been reading a book lately by Evan Thompson, an academic out of British Columbia, about models of the mind (one of my long-time favorite pursuits) and the basic structures of biology (oh shit, I have been learning a whole bunch about that lately becauseT pot).
https://evanthompson.me/mind-in-life/ if you care.
So, early in this book, Thompson synopsizes three major schools of thought about the nature of mind i.e. what the fuck is going on in there:
- Cognitivist: the mind receives inputs from the environment and translates those into some representation of the world i.e. when the physical neurons are in a certain state, that corresponds to a certain representation of the world as received via the senses, past experience, etc etc.
- Connectionist: the mind is in a network with the outside world. this is the predominant theory today. Fundamentally, the problem is still treated as an input output problem i.e. the neurons are in a certain state and that corresponds to a certain representation.
- Embodied Dynamicism: This is the theory the author subscribes to. It incorporates time to suggest that the question of "states" is practically speaking meaningless because time is essential to cognition. As such, this theory does not treat states as interesting. Rather, it uses Dynamic Systems Theory, which maps all the possible states a multidimensional plane and then describes the topology thereof. This allows you to talk about the behavior of the system without translating it into instantaneous states.
Any errors in the summary above are mine and not Thompson's.... what has been interesting to me lately has been comparing this topographical description of states to my intuitive sense of the mind as flame.
It has also led me to think about watching plants grow and how that could be likened to a very slow motion flame along several through-lines to do do with energy, cycles, outward expression....
Nothing that one can grasp, but watching the smoke dissipate after a hit of a Panama Red/Haze bowl during the golden hour on a Chicago Alley evening....
Just thinking.
I have been working on translating a lot of the thinking you see in pieces here around flows and thresholds into a curriculum/platform for teaching....it's been an ongoing thing, but I have finally figured out the data piping in the background and so it is feeling more alive than it has in a long while. Hooray!!
Hope everyone is doing great. My plants in the veg tent are perking up a bit, but I am in no hurry.