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Did human gain free will in the last century?
As far as modern science is concerned, the mechanisms governing the brain are large enough that they behave deterministically. Humans naturally lack free will on their own
However, since the discovery of quantum mechanics and the inherent randomness of the subatomic scale, we humans have been able to access what we believe to be truly random processes. If this is indeed the case, does that mean any decisions humans make which are influenced by such small-scale phenomenon are an expression of free will?
For example, if I decided I wanted a coffee it would not be free will, but if I had an electron in a superposition of spin states and decided whether or not I would have a coffee based on what spin state I detected, would that be an expression of free will?
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>>7981421
>only according to modern science
>not using a cross-section of science and philosophy because they work well with each other
op fell for the STEM meme
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>>7981427
I guess I'll wipe my tears off on my wad of hundred dollar bills. Don't worry, I get a thousand of those a year
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>>7981459
>2916
>not being the main project coordinator and philosophical guidance of a group of scientists, getting paid 186k per year to essentially bullshit
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The other thread is full of shitposts and isn't being taken seriously, so I thought I would make another, better one.
These are most of the books I've bought in the past few weeks. I might have forgotten some, but I'm not sure. How'd I do, /lit/?
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>>7981383
What's the difference between Lawrence of Arabia and Seven Pillars of Wisdom?
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>>7981702
Seven Pillars was an account written by Lawrence himself.
Lawrence of Arabia was a third party biography
Was pynchon trying to invoke a sense of irrational racial paranoia in his audience by subtly implying that every character in V. is Jewish?
Seriously, like, I just realized this. They're all Jewish. All of them.
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>>7981366
It's especially weird when you notice how kind of out of place it is for most characters.
Brazilian guy? Jewish.
Irish national? Jewish.
British officer in the Victorian era? Jewish.
Catholic priest? Jewish.
V. and the Godolphins might be the only exceptions. It's so damn weird and I have no idea what impact it has on the narrative or interpretation.
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>>7981366
I've never read V., but from what I know about Pynchon, I'd guess making all his characters Jewish is a joke making fun of conspiracy theorists who see DA JOOS being responsible for all the world's ills and see every passerby on the street as a potential dirty-Jew-rat-bastard.
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pynchon, major jew-lover
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Are there any books that do a better job of mixing surrealism with intense emotion?
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the bible
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vurt - jeff noon
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>surrealism
r u stupid
IJ aint surreal
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>anglo speakers will never be sure 100% on how to read and pronounce their native language even in adulthood
hilarious sempai.
romance language masterace (tacospeak).
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>>7981270
>only speaking one language
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>>7981270
Spanish speakers invariably disregard grammar in my experience though. It's also pretty sad to me that most languages are so static when compared to english (yes, and german too). They never seem to natively adapt for new phrases and ideas. Maybe I just wouldn't know if they did.
Anyway, other languages seem so oddly limited in so many ways to me.
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Finnish is objectively the best language for literaturet.finn
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I'm a repressed fucking faggot. I have pic related coming in the mail, what else would you recommend me?
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Experience.
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moby dick
the picture of dorian gray
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Bible
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What do you think about Alain de Benoist and the New Right?
He made me think of the "separate but equal" doctrine during the segregation.
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He sounds incredibly interesting, - would anybody care to tell me where i can find some of his works?
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>le smart racist man face
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>>7981808
He isn't racist. Europeans from before the French Revolution did acknowledge the almost equal prestige the ME civilizations had with them. I think his project is going into a similar way, but with way more civic(pagan) religion elements.
Good bye, /lit/!
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shit wrong pic
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looks like steve-o
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>>7981069
simply eric, mah dude
Does /lit/ know of any literature on this?
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https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Cho_Fiction_Poetry.pdf
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>>7981041
This book is up for the Man Booker International this year, and it is all about shame and self hatred from Korea. So yeah.
http://themanbookerprize.com/books/vegetarian
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wat read
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>>7981027
Book
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Croatian tales from long ago
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Post books you expected to hate, but ended up loving.
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opposite for me
i was expecting some kind of borges or umberto eco literary detective story
instead i got edgy mexican kerouac
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>>7981864
Umberto Eco was Spanish Dan Brown.
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>>7982164
Or maybe Italian Dan Brown, I don't remember that fedora tippers nationality.
What's the literary equivalent to *holds up spork*?
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>>7980889
Fanfiction
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gravitys rainbow tbhfam
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Do you really need to read the 2nd half of pic related? I enjoyed the aesthetic part, but I'm about 30 pages into the marriage section and find it to be an incredible slog with no end in sight. That's probably the point of the ethical portion, but I have no interest in indulging in it.
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>>7980878
You don't need to read it. In fact, you are not obliged to read nothing at all. Do whatever you want.
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>>7980957
This, feel free to put down a book whenever you like.
*kisses you tenderly*
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>>7980878
felt the same. 1st part is more enjoying but I'd recommend you to read the entire book. It makes sens only as a whole. I believe the message lies beyond the dichotomy
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i love poetry. i think its the greatest artform, the one that comes closest to capturing the human condition while also being aesthetically pleasing by itself. i love it so much that i try to get my friends and family to read it too, because theres a poet for every walk of life to fall in love with for one reason or another, whether it be Bukowski or Shakespeare or Yeats. I dont care if the poet is shit or one of the greats, i just want them to get the same joy and see the same beauty from it as i do.
My question is: is this a good thing, or just really pretentious and self-righteous? Should i go around recommending bad writers, or forget about the academic elitism and introduce them to anyone they might relate to? These people dont read at all so its not like its hurting them anyway right?
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>whether it be Bukoswki Shakespeare or Yeats
>I don't care if the poet is shit or one of the greats
Poetry
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>>7980861
He's like a shitty bookstore employee who just has to sell something, anything, to every fucking idiot.
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you love poetry because the one time you ever felt part of a group was among poets. they validated your self-image for perhaps half an hour and your brain took an imprint on this.
you could just as well have been out shooting squirrels with a different group of people, and you'd now be saying "I love guns. i think hunting is the greatest artform, the one that comes closed to capturing the human condition while also being aesthetically pleasing by itself."
the sad part is, trapped inside this imprint, it's going to take you years to work out that poetry is just a thing. it's not THE thing. there are thousands of things out there, and poetry is just the thing you fall into.
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What themes does /lit/ like in their fictional literature?
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how humanity deals with the apparent meaningless of life and the universe.
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>>7980859
What fictional literature did you read that contained themes of that?
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>>7980857
depression and the soul crippling tedium of human existence