/lit/ - Literature

>>12943181
Basically this. Leave the history anons alone!

>>10321448
hehehe

The Illiad lifts my spirit with its depictions of incredible bravery and courage. It also sheds another light on Nietzsche's philosophy as a bonus.

Are there more recent books which have the same heroism and the same life-affirming philosophy or is Homer the best and only of this kind?

What types of humor adapt well to literature? Are actual jokes and standup-like material bound to look childish in literature?

What are some books about the history of literature? that present the different periods of literature and their characteristics?

Even though /lit/ is big on philosophy i've never seen the hard problem of consciousness being discussed here.

>The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why we have qualia or phenomenal experiences—how sensations acquire characteristics, such as colors and tastes. David Chalmers, who introduced the term "hard problem" of consciousness, contrasts this with the "easy problems" of explaining the ability to discriminate, integrate information, report mental states, focus attention, etc. Easy problems are easy because all that is required for their solution is to specify a mechanism that can perform the function. That is, their proposed solutions, regardless of how complex or poorly understood they may be, can be entirely consistent with the modern materialistic conception of natural phenomena. Chalmers claims that the problem of experience is distinct from this set, and he argues that the problem of experience will "persist even when the performance of all the relevant functions is explained".

Thoughts? Pic unrelated