/lit/ - Literature

>>18433986
Good Lord! this might be a classic case of fpbp, the moment i saw the words "pessoa" i felt a thunder. you are a scholar

Okay /lit/, I've completely stopped using my smartphone outside of accepting and making calls, and I've cut down my internet browsing to 3 hours/day. No television, no movies, no news, radio only.
I need to take the final kaczynskian step and go completely off the grid.
What are some writers who treat post-80s technology and the internet as the plague (or are simply very critical and skeptical about it)

>>17802088
i don't like listening to loud music when driving because it's dangerous

also have a nice and productive day anon you are loved

>>17674068
its you

>>17672455
kek, that's hilarious. There are a couple of songs that I actually first heard in an ad. Sadly though, I couldn't actually bring myself to really listening to them on their own (even though they were genuinely good songs) simply because in my head they were registered as "ad music". It's a shame but that's how things are sometimes
>>17672484
Exactly, I hate that shit. The fucking app is designed to castigate you for putting a little bit of fucking emotion in your text or writing in a slightly unconventional way. It's like it's meant to kill your "unique writing voice". I hope that in the future, little kids aren't subjected to this kind of thing so much but it seems unlikely.
I mean for fuck sake, could you imagine if Shakespeare were forced to sit down and write on one of these fucking apps? Christ, I really hope are literary future isn't as bleak as I think it's going to be (not that the present is so good now).

>>17653615
yeah it's called schizophrenia

Write what's on your mind

Which ones of these have you read?

>Homer
>Greek tragedies
>Ovid
>Virgil
>Bible
>Dante
>Shakespeare

>the question that stumped /lit/ for good

>>16225846
>>Greek work
Homer's "Iliad"
>>Roman work
Virgil's "Aeneid"
>>English work
Hobbes' "Leviathan"
>>Italian work
Machiavelli's "The Prince"
>>French work
Montaigne's "The Essays"
>>Spanish work
de Cervantes' "Don Quixote"
>>German work
Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"
>>Russian work
Tolstoy's "A Confession"
>>American work
Melville's "Moby Dick"
>>Scottish work
Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"
>>Irish work
Joyce's "Ulysses"
>>Nordic work
Beowulf
>>Canadian work
Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"
>>East European work
Eliade's "The Sacred and the Profane"
>>Middle eastern work
Epic of Gilgamesh
>>Chinese work
Laozi's "Tao Te Ching"
>>Japanese work
Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji"
>>Korean work
Not familiar
>>Indian work
Vedas
>>African work
Ooga booga

>>16196298
Searle's Chinese room argument is subtley, yet completely and totally refuted by Baudrilliard's work on semiotic ontology.

Within time in the Chinese room, one will no longer need to consult any reference material. The issue present in Searle's argument is a sensory gap.

This gap is merely a linkage of the sign to the material construct. In short order, if senses are introduced to a system and it has the capacity, it is completely trivial for it to associate the previously known signs to those material things. In fact, I cannot understate the absolute triviality of this manner, when our most advanced AI systems to date are systems that have senses and pattern recognition, and utilize both to do things like navigate the environment, describe what it sees through an array of cameras, etc.

What the Chinese room is really about, is information entropy, and common issues that arise from an inability to encode information consistently (As otherwise, it would be possible to compress any information into no information). But you have much more reading to do before you are quite ready to understand any of that. You're but a little baby.

>>16028414
I, too, employ this based approach.

>>14266541
>>14266572
>what is a joke

>>14236889
Islam has a very, very bad conception of omnipotence. I do need to learn Arabic and study the Qu'ran, if only to form an actual argument based in the texts itself. There's just not enough time right now for me to do that. However I have read a lot of translated scholarly musings, and I'm extremely unimpressed. On top of the translated bits of the Qu'ran I've read in the past, I feel 100% comfortable with the assertion that Islamic metaphysics is extremely lacking. Any social spirituality has lost the plot.

Plenty of monotheistic religions believe their sacred text is the literal word of God. I want to propose that a being fully realized as God does not speak in text or through prophets.

>>14058197
What was your intention of replying to my effortpost with a shitpost?

Was it to purposefully cultivate ill-will, knowingly reducing the degree to which you can post freely on this board without being met with snark and vitriol more than you already do?

Is it to try and lower the standard of discussion of potentially good threads, out of some spirit of malice driven by feelings of:
>If I can't post on this board without being shitposted at NO ONE CAN

Or have you been so driven down by a board that's rejected you harshly that you are reduced posting like this is /v/ - video games?

What drives the pathology of the butterfly?

>>13993637
>newfags aren't even aware of what the Western Canon is

>>13517748
>Noise noise noise NOISE NOISE