/lit/ - Literature

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Not only is it a good story, but when I read it as a teenager Tolstoy’s ideas of history as a continuous curve of determinant causes challenged the way I had thought about history, had been taught it in school, and our natural need to bullet point things into memory

I haven’t read Being and Time yet, but phenomenology changed my perspective on cognition and how we interact with the world. It opened my eyes to the “roles” we let ourselves play and how dumb the brain-in-a-vat-piloting-a-meat-mech model of humans is