Cold hard rocky

Any Cold alcoholic beverage whether uts a cold beers or any white or dark liquor on ice.

I had a cold hard rocky at Billy's Bar and Grills.

by Tommy Dollar January 7, 2024

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Hard Problem of Plant Cognition

The debate over whether plants' complex adaptive behaviors—like root networks solving resource distribution puzzles or leaves optimizing sunlight capture—count as a form of "thinking." The hard problem here is: If they have no neurons, where and what is the "cognitive workspace"? How do we recognize cognition in a system so alien, operating on a timescale of hours or days, without a central processor? It's the challenge of defining cognition so it isn't just "brain-based information processing," potentially forcing us to see intelligence in silent, slow-motion biological algorithms.

Example: "The vine grew a perfect path through the lattice, avoiding painted (toxic) sections. The hard problem of plant cognition: Was that a cognitive choice, a simple chemical tropism, or a beautiful, mindless computation? And if there's no difference in outcome, does the 'mind' part even matter?"

by Abzugal January 30, 2026

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Hard Problem of Plant Consciousness

The most speculative leap: the question of whether plants, with their integrated signaling and responsive behaviors, could have any form of subjective experience. Not thinking, but feeling—even if it's a slow, diffuse sensation of light, damage, or attraction. With no brain or nervous system, what would consciousness even be made of? It’s the ultimate challenge to our animal-centric view of sentience, pushing the boundaries of whether consciousness is a universal property of complex, self-sustaining systems or a unique trick of neural circuitry.

Example: "The mystic says the forest has a spirit. The scientist says it's a chemical network. The hard problem of plant consciousness is the unsettling void between: what if they're both right? What if that 'spirit' is a real, subjective experience, but one so alien and slow we could never recognize, let alone measure, it?"

by Abzugal January 30, 2026

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Hard Problem of Scientific Consensus

The paradox that while consensus is science's method for settling disputes, the process of reaching it is deeply social, psychological, and vulnerable to groupthink, institutional inertia, and external pressure. How do we know a consensus (e.g., on climate change) reflects true scientific convergence rather than a manufactured or coerced agreement? The hard problem is trusting the collective voice while knowing it can be shaped by factors other than pure evidence.

Example: "He agreed climate change was real but had a hard problem with the scientific consensus. 'Was it reached by pure evidence,' he wondered, 'or by grant agencies defunding skeptics, journals rejecting contrary papers, and a social zeitgeist that punished dissent? I believe the conclusion, but I don't trust the groupthink factory.'" Hard Problem of Scientific Consensus

by Abzugal January 30, 2026

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Cookin it hard

We have all caught ourselves at some stage throughout our lives where we've stood back for a second and realised that we're cookin it hard. This isnt a good nor bad thing and the sight of someone cookin it hard is impossible to miss, although it is rare for one to be seen cookin it hard out in public - unless there is something they really need to do..such as sort out Centrelink or to get a pay safe card...

Person 1: oi man you're cookin it hard in here ay, u been out here in the shed for bout 7 hours I was starting to talk to myself ...
Person 2: fixin me bike man it's nearly done just this bits fucked I gotta boa bla bla...

by Qwepperz4lyf September 17, 2017

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