/lit/ - Literature

Uni of Tokyo

>liberal arts

starting sep this year hope there arent too many fat weeb girls

not a fucking clue

american psycho

any japanons out there by any chance? im not local tho

i'm asking help to the philosophers here. i'm a naive and ignorant guy, and there's a dilemma that is persecuting me.

i was thinking that the probability of me existing is so low that it could probably be approximated to zero. what were the odds of my consciousness to form, among the bilions and bilions of consciusnesses, and the infinite number of the potential consciousnesses that were never born? what were the odds of me being a conscious being in this right moment, compared to the infinite stream of time? "if i wasn't conscious right now, i wouldn't be able to formulate this questions in the first place" doesn't satisfy me as an answer

is there a philosophical field that addresses this? should i just google some theory of consciousness papers?

>>7355960

>>6748600
Welcome to /lit/. Here's your free first-timer's kit.

Swann's Way
Madame Bovary
Dubliners
The Man Without Qualities
Hunger
The Metamorphosis
Chekhov's Stories
The Sun Also Rises
The Narrow Road to the Deep North

>>6464064

like...you should probably develop your own taste. seems like you just read what you think seems 'intellectual'. So many of those books try to develop upon what a 'book' is, but aside from Dostoevsky and Hemingway (and judging by your selection, you just picked up the most famous Dostoevsky and the shittier 'manly' Hemingway) you don't seem to read any traditional novels that would help you understand why postmodern books are enjoyable. It's like watching the Venture Bros. without knowledge of Hannah Barbarra cartoons. I was dumbfounded that you don't also have a copy of Blood Meridian.

>>6412302

Roadside Picnic, fuck yea. I've hear Glamorama is great
>>6412398
cool
>>6412965
Shopenhauer is best hauer

just updated mine
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/35515738?shelf=read