Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 740. page

>>9703809
whoa...he revealed his full power level!

Reminds me that I need to fucking exercise already. What's the best way to get enough exercise in the least amount of time?

>>9703809
>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/. Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but ideally those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.

>>9703384
>18
>I have a homophilic crush
>Infinite Jest

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>26
>Own a fleshlight
>Mythology by Edith Hamilton and War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

remove datamining

I'm going to steal it and re-word it very carefully so that it fits into my much-better-than-you-could-possibly-do story (they're not very good)

I'm going to translate it and give it off as my original work.

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I AM THE POSTER OF THIS THREAD. IF ANYONE FINDS THIS THREAD, THEY MUST UNDERSTAND: ALL KIKES MUST BE GASSED

GERMANY'S FUTURE MUST BE SECURED FROM THE REVOLTING JEW MENACE

DON'T PLAGIARISE MY WORK

IF YOU WANT TO QUOTE ME, REMEMBER TO QUOTE ME AT MY BEST:
>Man is a dark beast, and an unruly one.
>Thought itself is a kind of psychosis.

Look up Yukio Mishima.

>>9703317
Picture of Dorian Gray. I had a gay crush while I read it, and the way Basil describes his feelings for Dorian Gray is exactly the way gay crushes feel like.

>>9703317
>A Single Man
>Giovanni's Room
>Confessions of a Mask
>Orlando
>Mrs. Dalloway

yo bro they lit af doo is like this shit was all 'bout his childhood drama BOOM bitch! mind blown, knowwhatamsaying?

>>9703147
Denis, is that you?

>>9703147
Entitled Opinions

>>9702723
>not wanting a sexy librarian/lab technician to jerk you off into a sample cup
I have some bad news for you son

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>>9702723
Kek. Nice greentext, lad.

lmfao this shit going on r/4chan

>coffee
>not suicide

>>9701959
>>9701968
coffee works if you're at a certain stage of soul evolution

it takes a certain type of awareness to know if you're there or not

I set those coffee "enthusiasts" on the same plain as junkies. They're annoying, quirky and talk about how great it is without you even asking.

god can contradict himself, presumably. so, in the end, free will is just another drop in the bucket. the rule of non contradiction is irrelevant since it is a fragment of human consciousness, and not necessarily indicative of reality, and even if it is, god is a supreme being and can obviously determine and violate rules of a reality he created to begin with.

>>9701697
except to find me on the next band of the spiral :~)

>>9701720
Your spiral shit is exactly that—shit.

anybody can listen to Tool, friend, but only assholes would.

Pride and Prejudice.

>>9701555
Swift
Cervantès
Molière

>>9701555
The Pickwick Papers
Jeeves and Wooster

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>>9700013
Garbage.

>Quantum mechanics teaches us that objective reality, contrary to our common sense intuition, does not exist prior to measurement.

It does not. Operationally and mathematically, quantum mechanics tells us nothing about how the world is.

> In the standard Copengagen interpretation of quantum mechanics there exists a ‘Heisenberg cut’ – a boundary between the observer and the observed. Von Neumann argued that all material objects must be placed on the ‘observed’ side of the Heisenberg cut, and that only consciousness can be placed on the ‘observer’ side.

Neumann and Bohr's interpretations are vastly different. Copenhagen does not postulate consciousness as a necessary requirement for the collapse of the wave function nor is there even a consensus over what Bohr really meant, although his own statements point towards a belief in an objective reality underlying quantum phenomenon. Neumann's is usually ranked lower than other interpretations because there is no explicit mechanism by which consciousness might be said to cause collapse. Why pick this over Bohmian or Everettian mechanics? Everett's contribution towards the development of decoherence would at least point in the direction of Many Worlds as opposed to consciousness.

The saddest thing of all is that you completely overlook the one thing that could potentially support your point: Bell's Theorem. A rejection of counterfactual definiteness would entail a notion of scientific discovery that becomes nothing more than reading the pointer clicks on our instruments as opposed to acquiring privileged access to the external world. Only then might the moon not be there when no one is looking.

>>9700118
>It does not. Operationally and mathematically, quantum mechanics tells us nothing about how the world is

What? Quantum mechanics tells us that a system prior to measurement (observation) is described by the ‘wave function’, which evolves deterministically according to the Schrödinger equation as a ‘superposition’ of different states.

We can get into the ontology of a wave function if you like, but an object in a superposition cannot be said to 'exist' in the same way a table 'exists' when I look at it.

The double slit experiment, and others like it, tells a great deal about how the world is and your assertion there is frankly bizarre.

>Copenhagen does not postulate consciousness as a necessary requirement for the collapse of the wave function
Not *necessarily* no. You can always take the 'shut up and calculate' approach, but von-Neumann's logic is undeniable.

If we start with a superposition (S), the interaction of S with a measurement apparatus (M) would result in a superposition. But we could think of another apparatus (M0 ) that measures M and S, and we’d still have a superposition, and keeping doing this indefinitely, ever adding more measurement apparatuses to the chain – including our eyes, our optical nerves and our brain. We would be left with a brain/measurement apparatus/system that is still in a superposition. But since we never actually observe a superposition, this chain needs to stop somewhere. According to von Neumann there is only one step when we know for sure that we do not have a superposition: when we gain conscious knowledge of the measurement apparatus; i.e. when matter interacts with the mind.

>Why pick this over Bohmian or Everettian mechanics?
It's telling that even Einstein - who hated Copenhagen - couldn't bring himself to adopt 'Bohm's approach'. (It was actually Prince Louis de Broglie who invented the 'pilot-wave theory', but he wasn't a media savvy commie like Bohm...) The theory is incomplete. It is incompatible with relativistic quantum mechanical models and with loop corrections (Feynman diagrams), as Hardy's paradox shows. It is simply a caricature of nature.

As for 'Everettian mechanics', it is an outright violation of Occam's Razor. And more importantly, no Everettian has been able to find a consistent derivation of the Born probabilities.

The choice between Copenhagen and other 'interpretations' isn't a philosophical decision on my part, it's just a better theory.

>The saddest thing of all is that you completely overlook the one thing that could potentially support your point: Bell's Theorem.

Well yes, the experimental violation Bell's (and Laggatt's) inequality only supports my argument and invalidates your very first claim in your post.

This all you have managed to achieve in this post is adding to the strength of my argument, whilst failing to debunk it with two vastly inferior interpretations of QM.

>>9700013
you are right desu. Look into the weirdway and Oneirosophy.

Look at the Kabbalah tree of life.

Consciousness (essence of God) -> Intellect -> emotions/feeling -> the world. It is the same way our perception is crafted. Both God is God and we are God -- more accurately, our piece of consciousness is divine.

>>9699300
This is nothing but a meretricious deceit, for my solemn is nothing but fathomable and ostentatious. This is true to the extend of ontologism and Kiergegaardism, thereby through all of certainty. You shall be of verboten and censured into utter dissension, for your imbroglio is nothing but a unilateral anathema, antithesis; recherche. This is to the periphery of abomination, to the brink of Existentialism and ethical egoism. For thou must be interdicted in all of certainty. Though it may seem a concomitant, let be a contumacious individual. This shall not avail, such defamatory and garrulous desultory shall not prevail. Thus, it shall be obliterated fecklessly with no lachrymose, for it shall never be remembered.

Reality as we see it may just an illusion. it could be all a projection of our conciousness, analyzing complex math equations in order to create in our mind the world we are experiencing.

deep enough for you?

>>9699300
Apathy to the goodness and badness around you, and not being self aware about your apathy is one of the purest virtues.

>>9697403
That's not what feminist literary theory is.

>>9697403
That's not how interpretation works.

>>9697403
>How the fuck can you think something written by a 19th century German philosopher was in any way feminist?
what did you think Nietzsche and Schopenhauer were responding to with their rants on feminism?
also this >>9697418

>/lit/

>>9696548
The forest had begun transforming itself in a labyrinth with twists and turns on the trails they had taken. Her eyes wandered left and right, and what she saw was bushes, trees, and vines. A scenery which Ava, an huntswoman no younger than thirteen, had known all of her life, found herself foreboding. Nonetheless, Ava put those foreboding thoughts aside, and walked forward, she was born into a tribe that for a time in the past once sacked towns to their heart's content so the Storyteller would say.

can i get crit please https://pastebin.com/LywtY7BH

fook yea

>>9695125
I added annotations to the side so it's easier to use the thing now. Let me know what you guys think also if you have any suggestions let me hear them

>>9695217
Annotations seem to have disappeared for me as well as the ability to annotate.
I'm using Firefox and also tested it in Safari.