From a philosophical standpoint:
How much of a brain can you replace with a computer interface that performs the same functions before the resulting system ceases to be alive and/or conscious?
>>362170
A brain is just a biological computer. Replace a neuron with a synthetic neuron, there is no difference. Keep doing this until all neurons are replaced.
>>362170
If the computer does the exact same thing as the brain, there is no reason to believe conscioisness ever ceases. The problem is that we don't really understand the brain all that well, let alone what its exact relation to consciousness is.
ITT: Post good historical documentaries
pic related is basically THE civil war doc, are there any good ones about the Napoleonic Wars
I'll second the Ken Burns Love
The Weight of Chains:
http://youtu.be/waEYQ46gH08
That's on the Yugoslav Wars
>>362036
I love the music in this documentary:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CGeCPv6gw_U
soooo did the mongols successfully invade and occupy moscow?
are they the exception?
>>361876
Well, for starters there was no Russia back then....
>>361886
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27
>>361886
and no moscow either
What was alcohol like in medieval and ancient times?
Was beer anything like it is today? Wine? Liquor?
>>361804
I know that it was a lot weaker most the time.
>>361804
Beer didn't have hops until the 14th or 15th century.
They used a lot of herbs and spices before that and modern day recreations taste awesome.
During the day light ales and wine diluted with water was drunk, for parties they had good wines and special beers and seasonal beers.
Ale only kept for a few days and had to be continuously produced by Alewives, hopped beer lasted longer and could be exported in barrels.
Later in the medieval period they also had distilled spirits such as brandy.
The ancients considered people who drank undiluted wine barbarians (Celts, Thracians etc etc.)
One last thing, it's often said people drank ale or wine because water was of so-so quality but that isn't really true. It's more of a way to make things interesting just like we drink coffee and tea or soft drinks.
>>361847
Yeah, I've heard that ancients drank alcohol because of the bad quality of water.
kind of want to try a recreation of the older beers now, without the hops.
I don't mean Chinese history as in the history of China, but history in China.
They take history so seriously in China, however you know almost every single fact from modern day Chinese historians is in some way affected by complete fabrications and presumptions. Everything they learn has to align politically with their political agenda. Even compared to Japan and Korea, at least academians have some basic sense of an independent, objective view of historical facts, on the other hand Chinese academics sponsored by the Chinese government completely come up with 100% politically biased information, which they use to brainwash 1.3 billion people to push forward the agendas of the CCP and aligning the entire region toward them.
For example, they consider the histories of non-ethnic Chinese minorities as Chinese even when Chinese history is supposed to be purely based on the Han Chinese people. They just use it to lump Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians and Vietnamese as part of the Chinese.
Use your discretion and never trust Chinese historians or use Chinese sources
History is shitty all across Asia, where ethnic nationalism rules emotion.
>>361662
OP, why exactly are you surprised that an authoritarian ideologically based government would tell lies to its people in order to make itself or its people look better? Especially when it has a very firm grip on communications?
>>361662
>on the other hand Chinese academics sponsored by the Chinese government completely come up with 100% politically biased information, which they use to brainwash 1.3 billion people to push forward the agendas of the CCP and aligning the entire region toward them.
Considering the fate that Chinese history suffered through 40-30 years ago, that's a fucking improvement lad.
Which Christianity is closest to the early Christianity? Orthodox, non-denomination, Catholic, Coptic, Lutheran, Calvinist? which one?
>>361378
>early Christianity
This obviously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Christian
>>361378
Jesus
VALIS
Who first popularized the idea of historical progress?
>>361357
Modernism and its predecessors
Marx.
>>361365
>first
>and its predecessors
For those who don't believe in Sola Scriptura, what else is important?
Not being stupid enough to buy into that idea.
Sacred Tradition, Ecumenical Councils. For Roman Catholics, Scripture and Tradition are equally important. For Orthodox Christians, Scripture is a part of Sacred Tradition, and Ecumenical Councils are not about adding doctrine, just about spelling out doctrine that was always there (to support this, they show that the Coptic Church, apart from the nature thing, has identical beliefs even thought they haven't been involved in most of the Ecumenical Councils).
>>361241
>believing words on paper
some sort of direct intuition or nothing m8
What philosophies or philosophical positions do you adhere to? Favorite philosophers? Favorite arguments?
I think Taoism is less retarded than it seems at first. Humans just get in the fucking way and usually shit resolves itself.
Egoism, i'm an absolute madman
>>361193
Evola. Heil Hitler
A girl I knew told me yesterday that all men in ancient greece were bisexual. Is there any truth to the claim that all Greeks were BOYS MMM!
no true scotsman
>>361194
How is this relavant?
>>361175
Anon, she wants to have a devil's three way with you.
One of the best US presidents X horribly overrated quy responsible for Civil war?
The civil war was inevitable by the 1850s.
>>362255
This.
Pierce and Buchanan did nothing to change the tide. Lincoln inherited the mess and I doubt could have performed more admirably.
I always wonder what reconstruction would have been like with him.
>>362255
It was Polk who essentially made it inevitable with his territorial acquisition.
He also alienated northern democrats by compromising his "54' 40' or fight" promise on the boundary of Oregon territory which exacerbated sectarian differences, shifting US politics to be less about 'democrats vs whigs' and more about 'northern interests vs. southern interests'.
Post anachronistic paintings and give a short description
This is supposed to be Theodoric I, king of the Visigoths. He ruled from 418-451 ad.
The painting itself is from 1635 and clearly shows contemporary style.
Satan's last supper.
Found in some schizophrenics apartment in the 1950s after he hung himself.
>>362021
That's pretty rad, will it spook my pc after saving?
>>362038
I don't know. There were more painting similar to this found in his apartment dating back to WW1. Can't find them though.
How does a man in our world try to become a Warrior of Justice? What philosophies come closest to that ideal? Are there any historical figures who tried to live by that standard?
Legalism if your idea of justice is rigid adherence to THE LAW
>warrior of justice
Dangerously close to becoming a social justice warrior if you're mind isn't strong.
Read stoicism
Live a martial lifestyle
Put emphasis on mental training/learning as well
Stand ready for the fight we all know is coming, be prepared
Stand with good civil people of traditional/natural values and not this new generation that will lead to our destruction
>>361001
That just sounds like 101 to being a /pol/ack /k/ommando though.
Can we get some pictures of what West and East Africans built and made before colonization was in full force?
Is there a bigger example of JUST in modern history?
Soviet Union
>>360805
A-H
>>360816
What parts of the CCCP specifically? Russia seems alright except for heroin
