/lit/ - Literature

>>12878654

>>12798210
Someone get Girardfag back, I missed the Cosmotech/space taoism threads

>>11664838

Currently a philosophy major with a writing minor going into my sophomore year. I'm thinking of becoming a professor, and if that doesn't work out then I'll just join the Marines. Am I making a patrician choice in college major/minor or am I brainlet incarnate.

Anybody else a current/past philosophy major?

Your brain is not actually "wired" to explicitly or implicitly foremost desire pleasure and operate, as a consequence, as some sort of chess playing computer in service of that goal. Quite the opposite, in fact. Your brain seeks value, meaning and positive valence. These things all involve pain and discomfort in the world we live.

>>11580449
Meaning, from the psychological standpoint, the only one that matters, refers to the effective valence of an object or concept, and its relation to the referential framework used in the determination of value and significance to motor output.

>Discuss.
He's wrong, I guess, is as simple a way as I can phrase it.

The differentiation between unconscious and subconscious is one of neurological technicality, not superficial terminological definition. So, you can actually conduct a thought experiment to examine the implicit comprehension intrinsic to the human experience quite easily; have you ever been engaged in conversation, waiting for your turn to speak, and formulating the idea clearly in your mind when suddenly you lose all trace of the thought? Or perhaps having forgotten someone's name the moment you walk up to greet them, having met them many times before.

The information has slipped into the subconscious.

The unconscious is a slightly more sophisticated concept which requires some knowledge of the structure of the faculties of the brain responsible for the limbic system, and which I encourage anyone interested to study up on.

Probably a philosophical model which utilizes the brains capacity, and preference for, the mystical experiences implicit in the consumption of psychedelic substances.

That'll definitely be the next big model to revolutionize psychoanalytical thinking.

You'll find that one of two things happen if you read this book.

Firstly, you may reject everything in the book by suppressing the profound revelations regarding human nature out of fear, loathing, and base nature.

Secondly, you may comprehend it to some degree and regard the revelations contained within for what they are; profound and incredible.

>>11523937
What he is saying in this quote, you psuedo, is that the substrate of the arguments put forth by men of deep and profound comprehension of the nature of the quandary favor the framing and articulation of the conclusion of the propositional logic forming the demonstrable proof of the conclusion itself, instead of dryly presenting the logic as if it is as convincing without the character of the man whom is acting as surrogate for the outsourcing of the cognitive processing required to comprehend conclusion and process both.

What is /lit/'s population?

>>11433232
I guess another way of asking this is, is opinion synonymous with belief?

>>10780127
You follow what Wittgenstein says in the beginning on how to read it

Point 1.234 is in direct relation to 1.23, and not 1.24, and both 1.23 and 1.24 are in direct relation to 1.2, etc. Dont mess this up for the love of god, its not hard

Also
>>10780238
Is pretty good advice, but she is a bit tough

>>10780265
>Then I suggest 'Throwing away the ladder' by Cora Diamond.
Is good advice, from my perspective, because I agree with her interpretation. I also recommend Diamond's "Does Bismark have a beetle in his box?"

It would also be important to be familiar with Frege and Russell, specifically, Russell's ideas on definite descriptions and knowledge by acquaintance

PS: it gets much easier after his talk of world and objects. Just get through that. Trust me

>>9356098
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE

An invisible bed

>>9050405
Egoist
Held by no -isms; All things are nothing to me

>>9002257
Addendum: The term "achieve" is almost completely outmoded. Although "cultivate" is more fitting to current doxa, it still isn't good enough, because it still implies progress--though ironically less than the term which makes the development more immediate.

>>8824060
>Advertising for some shitty board

Leave my board

>>8823907
There's nothing "gut wrenching" about it.

>>8736324

>Emotions and modern plays are for gay people and girls

Way to spook yourself out of any actual literacy.

>>8569471
Oh, one last thing. You can make this things go away simply by sharing information, by disseminating knowledge that is yours in earnest and good will, not as a way to create a dogma or a group, but because you actually like those ideas. This does not of necessity mean to make it for free, yet the gain needn't be numbered papers. That's my position. That's what's happening. Because this thing is all about who knows what and who gets to know why. It's nothing physical. You could put all the Ivy League in your harddrive, and those you couldn't you could have only some clicks away.

Things don't repeat: they just like showing up as comedy before they go solemn.

>>8465805
>>8465812
congratulations this is the most spooked thing that i have read this month.

>>8104353
Probably not.

The structure is mixed up because of the first part. It is unorthodox for someone to so easily go from one memory to the next, and then to do that consistently.

That's it. After that you fill in the blanks (if you haven't already) and you understand the history of the family.

It is a very underwhelming book. I don't like the style, the "challenge", or the purpose if there is any, even with Quentin's little naughty-guilt. I don't like Faulkner.

>>8083702
I'm sorry... really. It wasn't my intention to deprive you of your precious Spirit. I know you need all you can get of it so you can hold your breath for as long as you painstakingly are capable of till Utopia finally comes. (Hang in there, it's right there on the horizon!)

>>8066396

>Civilized

2spooky4me

>>7852199
>being a better person
well spooked, my property.