Dragon Ball Z Uncensored

[Mike Dunn]

I'll sort my shit out in grad school, or maybe just get hooked up with a decent job through some sort of connections.

[Theldorrin]

I'm talking about studying neuroscience from both ends, Ace. Not just from the producer standpoint.

[Action Hank]

Grad school is fun, by the way. There is a lot of work, and professors will really grill you in discussion on overly complicated essays, and you have to write long long papers and do tons of research, and your grade is dependent on those one or two papers.

[Theldorrin]

That's sophistry, Ace. You're pretending that German literature translated into English is suddenly English literature.

[Mike Dunn]

I'm planning on taking a break from school for a couple years before I go to grad school, if I even go at all.

I'll just see what happens I guess.

[Action Hank]

While you may care deeply about the neurological interactions of the brain during the creation and interpretation of literature, I don't think there's any feasible way of going back in time and measuring the chemicals in Shakespeare's head as he wrote King Lear. Also, I don't think any literature scholars would give two shits.

Go talk to a Neuroendocrinologist with a penchant for Chaucer.

[Action Hank]

You don't have a monopoly on condescension, Theldorrin.

[Theldorrin]

That's because they're intellectually dishonest, Ace.

[Action Hank]

There are probably some Literary scholars who agree with you, and work as you wish they would in a hard-science way.

However, most literary scholars search for the social meanings within the themes of literature, not how it physically stimulates the brain. Things and ideas can be expressed in literature that cannot be reproduced in mathematics---mainly emotions.

God damn you, it's now 3.

[Action Hank]

The themes and ideas are the point of studying literature, not the firing of neurons in understanding the themes and ideas.

[Action Hank]

Sometimes these themes and ideas, and styles, begin in books written by German authors in German, but are embraced and absorbed into books written by English authors. Should an English lit scholar ignore the original German works when studying the English?

And what does any of that have to do with the opening and closing of calcium-ion gates? Why would a person studying these themes even want to look at these chemical-electronic processes? What would it even show them?

[Theldorrin]

That's not actually true, Ace. Mathematics can express everything so long as you provide the proper framework for the system.

Anyway, you're using a lot of wishy washy words that are generally meaningful to all fields of study(since they all study human artifacts, at least in an introspective way).

[Action Hank]

"Jenkins, see how this region of the brain is stimulated when this man thinks about how much he hates men who have lots of sex in fits of jealousy! What a scientific breakthrough! Now we can see how Dostoevsky and Salinger may have shared brain patterns in their thinking. Let's test others and find the next great writer of angst!"

[Action Hank]

Mathematics cannot explain why Guernica is an awesome panting. Mathematics cannot explain awesome. It can produce things that are awesome. Mathematics can be awesome. But it cannot explain awesome.

[Action Hank]

Awesome is illogical.

[Theldorrin]

Uh, English literature can't explain why anything is awesome, Ace. They don't know why things are awesome because they don't know why people find things to be awesome. They just proclaim something to be awesome, and don't care if other people in their same field proclaim the opposite. There's no basis for anything they say, and their entire field is based on logical fallacies.

Understanding why something is beautfiul is for a study in aesthetics. Unfortunately it's a weak branch of philosophy, but that doesn't mean that people have to treat it in a weak manner. It's just as open for systematization as every other branch.

[Theldorrin]

It's incredible that you don't think the mental processes involved in writing are exceedingly meaningful to understanding what was written.

And when I say mental processes, I'm talking about emotional processes as well. You don't think the emotional state of the writer matters at all to what was written?

[YES]

Theldorrin, why are not you an epicurean?

[Potatoes]

Because he dislikes salt.

[Stupid Fucking Faggot]

It's a testament to how fucking horrifying Theldorrin is to watch him obsessively try to suck all possible ambiguity out of existence and insist that everything is subservient to his understanding.