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>>17988312
That's fine op. It's normal to do that. Good luck

>>17988312
>philosophy of mind
lol

>>17988312
>Do you think it'd come across as overly eager
Don't listen to PUA bullshit that tells you that showing interest in a woman is somehow putting you at a disadvantage. Show an interest. Ask about the reading. That's a fine idea. She approached you first, she is clearly interested in, at the very least, getting to you know a bit better. So go from there.

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That sounds perfectly reasonable.

If you really wanna technician this shit to not seem overeager, put mild surprise on your face when you say it. That's a very faint smile with slightly raised eyebrows during a small "what's up" head motion. This makes literally anything you say seem spontaneous. If you can do this in the mirror and it looks natural to you, use it. If not, don't even try.

>>17988338
Yeah I'd laugh too if I wasn't the one paying for it, lol. It's actually a pretty interesting subject though. I think everyone should read about it, but nobody should pay college tuition to do so.

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>>17988351
Thanks everyone

>>17988392
So you think that thinking about our mind in an academic environment is laughable, but not knowing how to ask a girl out is normal? kek

>>17988392
never paid tuition fee past high school either, the thing about being a scholar is one tend to study what one likes instead of what's practical, so I moved from ECE to math, even so, the only meme course I took was philosophy of science.

>I think everyone should read about it
That sounds familiar. In academia, most people believe what they are doing is so very important.
>every civilized person should know about Lagrangian duality (it appears all over the places in classical physics!)
>every engineering problem is an optimization problem
(these are from S.Boyd)

In 2010, sir E.M.Stein said this in his class about what he would prefer for the direction of American education, and I wrote down roughly
>"Abstraction early and hard. Society isn't fucked over by people who can't perform computational aspects of elementary functions or apply the law of cosines. Society *is* fucked over by people who can't think for shit, and the rigorous argument style and reality of absolute knowledge endemic to pure maths would go a long way towards solving that. Who cares if some 40 year old salesman can't apply Fubini's theorem to solve physical problems. The experience of having proved it once in his youth will have made him a decent person (hopefully)"
And I was influenced a lot by Stein, not only because of he is one of the few masters from the previous century still alive, but because he is a real badass.