/lit/ - Literature

>>1051311
No. I've been talking out of my ass. Haven't you been paying attention?

Anyways, I've got to go. I think a fair share of my knowledge has been imparted.

Good night /lit/.

>>1051308
Here's one of his books.

>>1051295
Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff have made strong arguments for the mind as non-deterministic.

On a personal level I've seen a sort of Karma at work, in a sense that what-goes-around-comes-around.

>>1051281
In its original application it was not, as the mathematics was not probabilistic. It's a matter of popular awareness that general relativity has not yet been fully reconciled with "Quantum Mechanics", so the question is meaningless, as it is in incomplete theory.

>>1051226
I admit that I'm not an expert on the arts.

I get the feeling of a blueprint of the man when I see that painting. And I'm it resounded with the idealism and religiosity of the time.

>>1051148
I think that Melville and other Romanticist authors understood that quite well. What the author has seen or is imagining can not be directly transmitted, so the meanings are left to allegory and imagery for the reader to match with his own experiences.

The study of how truth is arrived at through words and argumentation, originates in Greece of course. The story of Rhetoric and the Sophists is a very enjoyable one.

>>1051124
Yes. And Godel died due to self-induced starvation because of an "obsessive fear of being poisoned" without his wife to check his food.

Einstein had a deist tendency as well, and Godel was one of the people he most respected and enjoyed talking to.

More?

>>1051072
Russell had a major part of his life's work defeated by Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.

Cantor lives on as well.

>>1051036
As in, don't bother me with ridiculous statements such as: we know nothing, nothing exists etc.

I'm majoring in Physics. I'm aware to a good degree as to what physics is.

>>1051016
The term "Quantum Mechanics" has been bastardized by New Age book peddlers, charlatans, and fools uttering inane statements about ontology.

Don't bother me with it.

>>1050993
>Quantum Mechanics suggests we know nothing
>nothing is real

I don't know how to respond to such a statement.

>>1050983
Take the word "certain" as "strong belief", then.

>>1050948
Most great mathematicians have had a strong connection to the divine. Cantor and Godel are two in particular.

And yes, any Creator would exist in a realm unfathomable. I enjoy something akin to Plato's "world" of mathematical truth. It has no place, and no time.

>>1050944
How is it that this is so true?

I do not have any memory of an old man eating. At all.

Is there even any photographic evidence?

>>1050885
" It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion."

-Francis Bacon

I'm very much found this to be true.

The thinking pattern of they day seems to be: "Well, since the world is full of bad things, and I'm unhappy, that means God doesn't exist.". It is easiest to come up with pseudo-reasonings for the non-existence of unseen intelligences, but if the same amount of time was spent searching for its existence or trying to find it through logic, I believe their beliefs would be much different.

I'm certain, that in infinity; and in realms of existence below and beyond time, there is a mind at work.

>>1050882
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>>1050852
That's a great find.

>>1050832
Given a circle cut into equal quarters by two perpendicularly bisecting lines, the the sine function will measure the height, and the cosine function will measure the length horizontal. The sine starts at zero height, and the cosine starts at 1 on a unit circle. When the line connecting the origin and the outline of the circle is swept to the vertical, the sine is now 1, and the cosine is zero. The two functions swap values (without regards to negative sign) every quarter turn, hence the 90 degree lead of the cosine function.

How disappointing

Does /lit/ have no loftier questions?

>>1050701
I have a telescope, and am an amateur astronomer.

The moons of Jupiter were spectacular last night.

>>1050679
Fiction is great for building vocabulary, especially 19th century literature, but I only spend time on non-fiction now.

My favorite novel was Moby Dick by far.

>>1050545
If I actually cared, or tried very hard to put effort into a 4chan thread, I wouldn't be the master of knowledge, now would I.

>>1050549
Historical biographies, autobiographies, or anything with anecdotes involving important people. The stories help put things together,

Khruschev's book is a gem.