/lit/ - Literature

>>19996765
>Plato and Socrates in different rows

learn italian you casul

>>16200052
>Jack Kerouac and his friends are interesting

>essentially

>>14291313
>Even intellectuals like Chomsky nowadays dont hold a candle to someone like Karl Marx.

>>14030728
We know

>Humans are special, we're here for a reason!
Actually advanced consciousness is all that separates us from the beasts and it's nothing but highly complex sensory input processing. There are plenty of animals with a better sense of smell/touch/hearing etc. but we're the best at "processing" the input and translating it into useful information.
>But only humans possess this so we must be important!
Actually neanderthals possessed similar levels of consciousness evidenced by the fact they buried their dead and cared for their injured. We killed them all and who knows how many other similarly conscious species.
>W-Well clearly our ability to search for meaning implies there's meaning to find!
No, your consciousness is simply daydreaming now that it doesn't have to provide you with information like "there's probably a great big dirty lion nearby" or "you're being stalked" every minute of the day. Consciousness was essential to our survival and propagation for hundreds of thousands of years, now that survival is so easy you could do it blindfolded your whole life your mind has all this power and nothing of real consequence to use it on so it turns on itself like a nuclear reactor with no outlet.

Debate me retards.