/lit/ - Literature

>>16488439
>Be honest lit, Is the soul and consciousness anything more other than a self referencing computer gaining self awareness from slow interpretation and self reference in regards to other things in an environment?
Yes, things which don't have awareness cannot interpret or reference anything else, so the notion that self-awareness arises from interpretation and referencing is an impossibility

>>16458954
kek

>>16349032

>"I never wrote anything on Plotinus, and admit that I never had the time to study him closely; but I know that there are many similarities to be made with oriental doctrines...Only there is one thing that has always shocked me: this history of states that Plotinus would have attained a certain number of times in his life, and, from which, seem to have left nothing permanent, which is poorly understood from the point of view of initiation; there would have been, in any case, something very incomplete in relation to his realization." - Rene Guenon, letter to Dr.Duby, 14 December 1936, Cairo