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Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
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Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
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#323Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#324I say it again, fungi and cephalopods are the closest things to aliens we have on this world.
The more I look at Animalia species the more I tend to judge this is all alien compared to ... mountains. Eyes, hair, hands, feet, genitalia : this all becomes pretty weird if I look at it "objectively".
It's all star dust on a fast enough time scale.
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
It definitely is not useful. Your model should at least attempt to approximate reality, not to depart from it by putting effect before the cause. That way lies madness.
try telling that to quantum physicists... theyll just give you the wave function and say "well it works doesnt it"?
Except for the decades of experiments yielding validated predictions?
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Chilis, tobacco and tomatoes are all in the same family (nightshades). And they are all "New World" plants. Which means Europe had to live without them until 1600 or so. If you can call that living.
Don't forget the potato! Europe before the potato seems like a miserable place
yeah before potato they had lots of lots of turnips and rutabagas, it is little wonder they went out exploring the world looking for anything better to eat. the new world gave tonnes of food not just nightshade family plant mentioned earlier (gp left out eggplant btw) corn, sweet potato, chocolate, sunflowers, and pumpkins, squash, peanuts, pineapple, cranberry and turkey.
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0) What do humans have to do with it? We're not the only animals that eat mushrooms.
that's exactly the point, the _lack of_ humans during its evolution is what it has to do with us, a mushroom may be poisonous to the species that it evolved around, while at the same time not being poisonous to humans
Hmm. I'm not sure there are many mushrooms poisonous to other mammals but not to us. We have almost exactly the same biochemistry after all.
Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#328Re: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
The more I look at Animalia species the more I tend to judge this is all alien compared to ... mountains. Eyes, hair, hands, feet, genitalia : this all becomes pretty weird if I look at it "objectively".
It's all star dust on a fast enough time scale.
Right ?
But then what the hell are "mathematics" ?