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  • yetAnotherUserto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRulé Descartes
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    13 days ago

    Not sure if this is the right place for questioning philosophical theories, but I have a few questions about this one.

    • The sentence is “I think, therefore I am”. What if we don’t think? Let’s imagine, for example, that there is a god or gods, that are the only beings capable of thinking, and that everyone just recieves those thoughts from the god(s), just gets them delivered right to the brain. In that situation, we wouldn’t be capable of thinking, would we? (iirc this was one of the main critics to Descartes’s chain of to thought. In this situation, I think the sentence could be generalised to remain valid.)
    • The sentence is “I think, therefore I am” (or if we generalise it to remain valid due to the previous point, “if something thinks, it exists”). Why can’t it be “I eat therefore I am”, or “I breathe, therefore I am”? What makes thinking more valid than any other action we can do when trying to prove our existence? How is thinking capable of proving our existence at all if nothing else is said to be capable? In fact, what shows that thinking can prove someone’s existence? (this one feels like a reworded common critic, although I’m not sure)

    I would like to invite anyone to comment/evaluate/counter/correct what I wrote here (just pls don’t attack me (>~<), attack the content instead). I know I could just research these things on my own, but I have a bit of trouble understanding the formal language that is used by specialists when discussing this type of problems, and I find it likely that others feel the same, so it felt cooler to talk about it here.

    P.S.: it’s kinda sad that this theory doesn’t quite prove the existence of our brainrot homies :3










  • yetAnotherUsertoAnimemes@ani.socialNew Gen Iseksai Title
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    1 month ago

    I feel like isekai is an interesting concept, but it is very poorly explored by the countless attempts at it (mostly because most of those attempts are low quality).

    Why does the MC rarely miss anything important from the previous world? I mean, even if the MC was such a loner as they always are, wouldn’t they miss a parent, a sibling, an old friend they no longer talked much with? If you reincarnated in another world, would you immediately forget everything that came before that? And wouldn’t the thoughts about the world you came from come back, even if you tried avoiding them?

    Also, why does the MC always become immediately overpowered? Like, other than being an overused comedy trope that is barely funny anymore, I know it’s fun to see a character hiding their own trump cards from everyone else and carefully choosing when to reveal them, but why would we root for a generic-ass stranger that got immediately cool because of some abilities they gained out of nowhere?

    I now understand why so many people like Solo Leveling, which I’m bringing to this conversation because I feel like has an isekai-esque setting. Other than being a really good story, it does a better job than most isekai at making you care about the protagonist, because the main character actually struggles to get the OP abilities, putting his everything on the line to become stronger, even in situations in which he wasn’t supposed to, and not just for himself, but for his family too. This means that the character walks down a path of trials and tribulation to become a hero, he doesn’t just arrive and say “hello, I’m OP now, dw I’ll singlehandedly destroy the villains, just did it, bye”, or instead say “sssh, I’m secretly OP and I want to siglehandedly defeat the bad guys without anyone thinking I did it because otherwise I get pestered by people who would want to use me for my OP abilities”. That makes him way more likable than most other MCs, you see him struggle. Not just that, but his job just becomes harder once he becomes OP, and there’s an actual good reason why he gets the abilities (won’t spoil much more, just read the manhwa or watch the anime, you won’t regret it). I think it should be tried to make an MC that doesn’t want to live forever in another world, but instead wants to come back to his world, and it should be possible for it to happen, but extremely hard. In Ascendance of a Bookworm, the MC wishes they could do that, but just can’t because they died and then reincarnated. But afaik there isn’t an anime/manga where the MC sets on a quest, or has the ultimate goal to go back to their world, and I think it would be interesting. lmk if there are already stories like that.

    tl;dr why are isekai MCs always extremely strong from the get go, and they never miss anything from Earth, and never want to come back, that should happen more times, and be more like Solo Leveling smh

    (Also, IseGure is a funny anti-isekai manga you might want to read)