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evolution of human perceptions 2017-08-20 10:28:22 Post No.9919672
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evolution of human perceptions
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Can anyone recommend some popular science/philosophical works that explore metaphysics from an evolutionary perspective? From my limited understanding, it appears that our perspectives of reality have evolved to be the way they because they were adventitious to our survival.
The kinds of questions I'm hoping to find answers to are:
Why do we only see the narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum that we do?
why do we perceive time the way we do?
Human emotions?
Perceptions of pattern, face, colour?
Ultimately how has natural selection (on earth) shaped who we are?
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just be yourself
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pattern and color are ancient. They cannot be recent because many plants and animals use color and pattern as warning signals. We instinctively flinch if a large yellow striped insect lands on our leg, we tend not to chew on brightly colored mushrooms, etc.
We perceive time as a proportion of the day, this is why we don't notice the fact that tidal forces actually make each day longer than the next.
We perceive basic emotions for survival reasons. Is this person angry or dangerous? Is this person crying because of danger? Shrieks of pain or fear serve as important warning signals to the rest of the tribe. A person who appears sated will be less likely to steal your bacon. A person who looks starving is someone you should look out for.
Honestly, if you ask me, we lead less fulfilling lives than chimpanzees, since all chimps do is socialize and eat and sleep which is essentially what humans would default to doing if not for all this extra bs.
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>>9919672
Evolutionary Biology is a highly speculative science, but that's the field you want to look into. Most of the specific things you're asking about are probably pre-human evolutions, which also makes hypothosizing them difficult. Check out work done with chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans.
For more sociological texts, check out Sapiens by Harari.
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Is this the quintessential book on how to write? Three chapters in and i already feel miles ahead of most /lit/ posters.
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>Three chapters in and i already feel miles ahead of most /lit/ posters.
>and i already
>i
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>>9920884
>fanfics
This board has ONE rule and you're breaking it.
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>>9920867
Did Araki really write a book about how to create manga?
Are their copies online?
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His book is great though
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Yawn
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>>9919671
What's great about it?
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>>9919671
the one that other people wrote for him?
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Should I jerk off to hetero porn or homo porn?
I'm ambisexual by the way, so I have a range of options
Also, who is the sexiest character in literature?
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You should exclusively jerk off to heterosexual hentai. Also, don't forget to include the tomboy, incest, and impregnation tags when you're searching.
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Traps
Don Juan
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Use your imagination you brainlet.
Heathcliff.
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Why has critique run out of steam?
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what the fuck does that even mean
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What did he mean by this? 2017-08-20 10:03:35 Post No.9919602
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What did he mean by this? 2017-08-20 10:03:35 Post No.9919602
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Life has meaning for life's sake. Death has meaning for death's sake.
...and what kind of nerds discuss this in text messages?
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>>9919613
I still don't think that was his point, from what I can tell now after reading this billions of times over he means that the very idea that one can reject propositions of the inherent meaning of life (thus rendering you a nihilist) preposes a sort of eminence of truth. In other words, our minds are transcendent enough to grasp that we are meaningless, thus there must be some meaning out there.
Also, you're asking why people would discuss this over text... on lit.
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>>9919602
Pweasse show boobies.
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What do you think about this lads?
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>>9919578
Pynchon, right?
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No clue who Norm would think is the world's greatest
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>>9919578
Zadie?
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The more I read, the more bigoted I get. Is this normal?
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>>9919564
if those are the books you choose to read, no
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no, eventually you learn to hate all of humanity including yourself. after that it's pure poetry.
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>>9919565
i usually dont read libshit but the white guilt got to me
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hey lads did anyone here read the German Lesson by Lenz? should i pick it up?
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I've read it, yeah.
I didn't enjoy it too much, but I like some of his short stories and novellas.
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3x3 thread?
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>>9920541
Top row: James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Chekhov
Middle row: Homer, Dante, Shakespeare
Bottom row: Dostoevsky, Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu
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Is an independent agrarian lifestyle the only path to flourishing or merely the simplest?
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Mastery of any trade is.
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>>9919540
Unless you belong to a community you won't ever flourish.
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>>9919747
Correct
ASOIAF realization
It's all his fault 2017-08-20 09:28:57 Post No.9919484
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It's all his fault
ASOIAF realization
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It's all his fault
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>>9919484
The true falty is in the fact that Robert was a innept king who literaly didnt give a shit and let awfull people into posicions of power.
Dosent help the fact that Ned is a fucking retard and was all "muh honor" instead of acting as a rational human and trying some dirty work.
AND FUCKING SANSA IS THE SOLE REASON NED IS FUCKING DEAD.
FUCK YOU SANSA.
I miss you so much Ned...
Why did all those awfull stuff happened to Arya and not to Sansa?
Why Sansa didnt get raped already when even Brienne amoust got raped twice?!
FUCK YOU SANSA, I HOPE YOU ROT IN FUCKING HELL YOU DUMB BITCH.
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Recommend me books based on my opinions below pls
I like good writing too much to enjoy most sci-fi or fantasy novels. I'm too much of a non pseud to like boring as fuck pomo novels that the dumb masses are told to enjoy. So called literary fiction is mostly extremely faggy stuff pushed by new Yorker reading "literary intellectuals". Most 19th century books are hideously ovetrated. Literary theory is bullshit. Continental philosophy is bullshit. Nonfiction books are usually unentertaining information dumps. Who shares my my taste? Here are books or authors I enjoyed.
Most modern books are marketed towards faggots. Basically the "anyone except white males" crowd. Pre 1900 books are honest books but so many are just hopelessly boring.
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>>9919429
You know, this is a tough one. Maybe if you gave the names of some books you like.
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Probably Houellebecq
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I'd like more introspective books as Sun And Steel (Mishima) or Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre). Any reccs ?
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My diary desu.
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>>9919426
send it to me
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The Fall, Camus
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So the entire world has been nothing more than a drug-induced projection from a dying druggie's big head being killed in a A Clockwork Orange-inspired montage and the allegedly deformed veiled actress playing Death was just Death? Of course the world where a dumb crooner is elected president, Canadian guys in wheelchair turned America-hating assassins and America using metric system can't be real, right?
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>>9919352
>So the entire world has been nothing more than a drug-induced projection
No you retard
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>>9919358
>takes postmodernist prose literally
Spotted the actual retard.
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No.