/lit/ - Literature

need some recs. im a weird guy, like one time i spent all frikkin weekend just htinking of how to produce truly random numbers

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>Plato is stupid.
Good thread when OP outs himself as a moron first line.

Read more closely next time. Socrates' interlocutors follow the argument. Just because you have an objection doesn't mean they did. Next time make a thread about a specific case and argue it here, that'll be much more interesting thanks.

big players, concepts, debates, etc.
particularly interested in understanding the landscape of french (baudrillard, badiou, etc.) and american (kripke, searle, etc.) thought

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Woops, I understand your comparison now. Chalmers' example in the Conscious Mind. If we understood consciousness as a class of thing and replicated it with, say, tomato cans and string, would it still be a consciousness? What about silicon? To me this is a bad example. Chalmers is addressing the resolution of the problem correctly (ie, scale), but his question is a restatement of the Sorites paradox. If you move bits of hay, pitchfork by pitchfork, from one pile into another... when is a haystack no longer a haystack? When there's only 15 pieces of straw left? 5? 2? 1? The important thing is it is a haystack, not a pile of sulphur. Yellow is not hay, and brains are not anything else.

I've been reading neuromancer by William Gibson and i'm real into it, but i'm worried that eventually i'm gonna be reading shitty cyberpunk wanna-be garbage. idk maybe i'm just an asshole but i want to know of any good cyberpunk authors.

I read the Sprawl-trilogy by William Gibson a few weeks ago and now I have an itch for more. Talk to me about the genre, Gibsons books and similar stuff while I wait for the Bridge-trilogy to arrive in the mail.

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