/lit/ - Literature

>>21459058
once you go the way of Bakker, on other books you empty your bladder

>>20418381
King Bakker the pioneer of sci-fi mind rulers, its about a supreme killer that rules the minds of plebs.

Basically this book is a sci-fi horror story that explains a paper the author published on "The Hard Problem of Conciousness," and the nature of conciousness. The guy was a neuroscience/philosophy PhD, and has a novel, if depressing take on conciousness and free will.

It basically takes all the most disconcerting findings of cognitive science and weaves it into a thriller.

It's a great idea and highly accessible despite the dense premise.

At the same time, the writing is meh. Good enough to carry the great premise, but nothing great. Which is weird because the guy is a really great writer. I guess he just hasn't figured everything out on his first book. 9/10.

I really liked Neuropath desu.
Been a few months since I read it and I still keep thinking about it from time to time. Probably going to read it again soon unless I find something else to scratch that itch.

>Bro, there's no free will, we're just automatons of flesh pre-programmed by our dark physiological urges
>Bro, everything good and bad that we experience in life, every choice we make, is just rote biological function of unknowable origin
>Bro, you can't counter muh Argument because even your desire to reply to it is preconditioned and involuntary

We get it Bakker. We get it. Freud made the same points a hundred years ago. But where does one go from here? Since there is the illusion of free will, why can't that we make courageous and liberating choices for ourselves? Nietzsche would cringe at the hopeless pessimism you express... Is this nihilistic cul-de-sac the reason Bakker can't get off his ass and face the public, let alone write and publish something new?

>all this talk about Bakker but no one ever mentions Neuropath

>>17025912
Also Shadow of the Torturer for prose.

After Party is a later cyberpunk type book where custom chemical printers let people get custom drugs. A team invents a drug that connects you to God, and shenanigans ensues.

Neuropath is also pretty good. More of a psychological thriller, but the premise is all based on recent discoveries in neuroscience and neuroimaging. It takes place is a dystopian near future and centers around a serial killer neurologist who kills people using changed to cognition that illustrate the illusory nature of the self and free will.

>>16758490
Heidegger is a meme and your finger began moving to type those words before you were aware you wanted to write them.

Conciousness is either an accident, or it was formed as a mechanism for long term decision making, but day to day actions are decided outside your concious awareness. You only can have self reflection on a tiny fraction what your brain is doing because that is all you biologically have access too.

There is a pretty good thriller about this written by a philosophy PhD. Puts a lot of info into the format of an easy to read thriller.

Where do I go from this?
I thought it was good.

What the fuck am I reading?