Beautiful, contradictory, deeply insightful, enlightening and simply engaging. Thoughts on it?
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Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
For the court of the TAO TE CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
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>>9702506
Red is better
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言者不如知者默
此语吾闻于老君;
若是老君是知者
缘何自著五千文?
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what are the main/most popular theories as to how the brain creates consciousness? not neural correlates btw
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>>9702364
this book is quite good
it basically proposes that consciousness/awareness is a model of our current mental attentional state we use to understand ourselves and our actions as well as impose top down orders on the brain. On top of that, it argues that the brain uses the same machinery to attribute consciousness to ourselves that it uses to attribute it to others, which is a mind-bending thought.
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>>9702364
There are none. We don't have the foggiest.
Probably the because materialism is false.
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Unironically Aquinas.
Read Walter Freeman and Edward Feser on Aquinas and neuroscience.
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>to smart to understand philosophical idealism
I just don't get it. No matter how many idealist thinkers I read I simply either
- don't get it, or
- can only understand it if rationalize it through a materialist framework.
e.g. When I [tried to] read Hegel what I got out of it didn't sound much different from Marx's materialist dialectics. Another example is Schophenhauer whose WWR just reads like a proto-version of Dawkins Selfish Gene theory.
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Idealism is materialism because it uses language which is material.
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>>9702293
If you'd like a starting point for idealism, read Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge. It's really readable, and the form of idealism he espouses is pretty clear and plain-spoken.
If Berkeley still seems hard to get, it may help to steep yourself in early modern epistemology via the Meditations and Locke's Essay, both of which I think can be read pretty much as an entry point.
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>>9702303
language is not material, it's made of waves
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>tfw unable to concentrate on reading because my family keeps talking loudly/playing music directly next to my room
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>>9702237
ICH HÖR DICH NET DU SPAGGN ICH HAB MUSIK AN
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>>9702238
guy, shut up.
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>>9702239
Halt your mauf you big fat asshole!
aber haider auf lit, wer hätte das gedacht? :D
boneclinks soll sich löschen btw
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why is it that, while I know many people from the anglosphere that speak at least a second language fluently (when it comes to grammar and vocabulary), all but two of them couldn't get rid of their atrocious accent? Are Anglos just retarded when it comes to languages?
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you sound retarded when you speak english, but everyone's too polite too inform you
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>>9702229
You're asking them to step down on the accent rankings chart?
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>>9702229
And this is commentary coming from a _____?
>Russian author
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>American author
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>human scrivener
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>>9702089
>Woman "author"
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>go to your bookshelf
>examine all the books
Up until this very moment, how much money have you spent on your bookshelf, anon?
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>>9702015
bout 6-700 bucks, i dunno.
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>>9702015
Max $200, as probably 95% of my the books I own were bought used/secondhand, save for the 5 or so books I wanted brand new, nice copies of.
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$200
History books on Greeks, Romans, Middle Ages
Japanese textbook
Bible
Homer
Collected Plato
Collected Aristotle
Virgil
Augustine
Summa Theologica
Divine Comedy
Chaucer
Hobbit
Wizard Knight series
Maus
MetaMaus
Not much but it's growing.
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I'm new to /lit/, but I've been writing for a while. I just finished a short horror story, and was wondering if you guys could critique and give reviews on it. Constructive criticism is appreciated, but I'm all for errors or mistakes in my story being pointed out, that's the only way to improve, right?
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>>9701770e
it sounds like you're ready to enter the spiral if you ask me
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Link?
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>>9701780
I'll see if I can post it here in parts. it's under 800 words.
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I only read penguin classics ;]
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>>9701265
i only read wordsworth classics
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i only read
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>>9701274
Fuck you xdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxddxd
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Is there anyone today like Thoreau? Is it even possible for someone to be like him today?
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>>9701178
Please be more specific.
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>>9701205
Someone who lived life deliberately. Someone who goes out and searches for a Good in an almost Platonic sense. Someone who, in their acts, does so because it would do so for pure delight of the act and the sublime feeling of it.
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>>9701178
just memorize his works.
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what do i have to read to become properly "cultured'?
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>>9701156
nothing, or, everything.
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>>9701159
Diogenes or Dante boi
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>>9701156
The Greeks.
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>Mrs Dalloway (1925)
>The Common Reader (1925)
>To the Lighthouse (1927)
>Orlando (1928)
>A Room Of One's Own (1929)
>The Waves (1931)
>six years
How did she do it fellas?
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like every other overachieving woman: she got a man to help her: men always have to work alone but women always have the labor of both themselves and their boyfriend to use
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>>9700954
is it too much to ask for 10 replies without the thread turning into this shit?
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>>9700960
british novels are boring as fuck dude
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Thoughts on Sam Harris as a writer/author?
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athiest jew who makes a career of attacking jesus christ
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>>9700804
I think the Romans pretty much attacked Jesus Christ to death.
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>>9700800
I think he might be literally autistic.
https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-limits-of-discourse
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Is it worth reading the books specifically for a fair and honest depiction of The Mannis?
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You'd like Victorion better. Read A Feast For Crows and decide if you want to read the rest.
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>>9700653
This thread should be on /tv/. There are plenty of /got/ book readers there.
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>>9700653
stop polluting this board. You could have at least went in the fantasy general thread. I have every right to report this thread.
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I've never ordered books en masse from Amazon, just singular copies now and then. I'm about to place an order now for 4 paperbacks. Has anybody had any trouble with paperbacks during shipping? Have they ever arrived bent or in bad shape? Or do they tend to come packed nicely?
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>>9700451
from amazon itself, never and if you get a ding her or there it likely happened in the warehouse
theyre pretty good when it comes to packing books, i havent had any problems
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>>9700451
Just received 3 paperbacks last week. Nice book package all in order.
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I've never had issues with Amazon. Depending on the size of the books I'd assume they'd be packaged in a small box as opposed to the regular cardboard wrapping (for lack of a better term I'm sure what you know what I mean) you receive singularly.