/lit/ - Literature

Hi, /lit/, I have been reading a lot of Plotinus in the least years, and I am very interested in his doctrine of Intellect and its relation to the nature of consciousness.
Can someone suggest some books about consciousness that are more or less in line with Plotinus' account of it? I was thinking about exploring some German Idealism: would that be a good idea, for you?

hello /lit/

i thought i'd start a thread devoted entirely to the original ideas that this board's users are mulling over atm. the goal is to help each other develop and or point out if it's original or not

i'll start:

i've been thinking about consciousness a lot lately and it's origins. i never gave a shit about history before but if we can find out what led to the development of consciousness (a feature that distinguishes us from other mammals/animals) we can not only propel this development into unprecedented areas but we can create super-humans by accelerating the speed at which consciousness develops precisely because we KNOW the cause

i read in an article that humans developed consciousness because of a combination of two things:

1. consumption of red meat (which up until the pre neanderthal paleolithic eras was never a thing)

2. consumption of human brains

so here's my original idea:

we take a group of volunteers and isolate them from the rest of humanity. we measure their intellect via IQ tests and various other standardized examinations. we feed them nothing but red meat and human brains for 50 years. we make them retake the examinations and compare the results. if we notice a positive correlation of at least 0.5, we take an even larger sample of volunteers and conduct the same experiments for another 50-70 years except this time we make them have children. we conduct this experiments on these children as well, since being born they will consume nothing but red meat and human brains for their whole lives.

we keep doing this for at least 10 generations straight and compare the average IQ of the last generation to the first one, as well as the rest of humanity.

if we find out there is a positive correlation between red meat/human brain consumption and IQ, we make it mandatory for the rest of humanity to include this as part of their diets. this will increase the average IQ of population tremendously and thus increase prosperity and peace

thoughts?

hello /lit/

i thought i'd start a thread devoted entirely to the original ideas that this board's users are mulling over atm. the goal is to help each other develop and or point out if it's original or not

i'll start:

i've been thinking about consciousness a lot lately and it's origins. i never gave a shit about history before but if we can find out what led to the development of consciousness (a feature that distinguishes us from other mammals/animals) we can not only propel this development into unprecedented areas but we can create super-humans by accelerating the speed at which consciousness develops precisely because we KNOW the cause

i read in an article that humans developed consciousness because of a combination of two things:

1. consumption of red meat (which up until the pre neanderthal paleolithic eras was never a thing)

2. consumption of human brains

so here's my original idea:

we take a group of volunteers and isolate them from the rest of humanity. we measure their intellect via IQ tests and various other standardized examinations. we feed them nothing but red meat and human brains for 50 years. we make them retake the examinations and compare the results. if we notice a positive correlation of at least 0.5, we take an even larger sample of volunteers and conduct the same experiments for another 50-70 years except this time we make them have children. we conduct this experiments on these children as well, since being born they will consume nothing but red meat and human brains for their whole lives.

we keep doing this for at least 10 generations straight and compare the average IQ of the last generation to the first one, as well as the rest of humanity.

if we find out there is a positive correlation between red meat/human brain consumption and IQ, we make it mandatory for the rest of humanity to include this as part of their diets. this will increase the average IQ of population tremendously and thus increase prosperity and peace

thoughts?

Can I get some recommendations on books about consciousness? An overview of the view on consciousness throughout philosophy would be great as well as standalone texts. Thanks

I'm looking for an intellectual tour de force which will stimulate my mind immensely.

What's the deepest book you've ever read?