Is reading Fiction pointless?
no
>>16477664not if it's culturally relevant fiction.
Male.I don't read fiction.
>>16477664Personal opinion here, never searched for any paper to back it up. I think that ability to speak well and ability to think well are somewhat related. There's a reason why closest thing to AI as of now comes from feeding tons of text into a neural network. Reading should be good for your brain whatever you read. Listen for an audiobook while commuting or doing chores if you can't force yourself to read a paper book.
>>16477664Yes.
>>16477664I think it mostly is but only because history is so much better and so much more impactful/relevant, and a far better teacher.
>>16477889History is fiction too retard.Everything we put in text are nothing but stories. All our language use is about telling stories.
Ask Martin Gardnerhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annotated_AliceAsk MIT Presshttps://direct.mit.edu/books/book/3542/FrankensteinAnnotated-for-Scientists-Engineers-and
>>16477664no, its good to exercise the imagination.
>>16477664I enjoyed reading the invisible man and rosie project as humor. 1984 and brave new world also pretty good. all the other fiction i read for school absolutely sucks.
>>16477664What's an example of nonpointless nonfiction?
No. Because fiction is a larp of reality and can introduce good philosophical concepts that are hard to articulate directly. And need a story to personify and communicate to humans
>>16477664No. Some fiction can be more informative on different topics as non fiction. Such as if you want to learn spy craft Frderick Forsyth and Tom Clancy are just as knowledgeable as any non fiction author. Dan brown if you want to learn conspiracies and occult topics. Micheal Crichton is as much an expert on any topic he wrote about as the top people in the field, John Grisham on law so on and so forth. I have read every book by these authors that they ever wrote and the wealth of knowledge I gained from it is far more than any of the dumb shit you learned in uni
>>16478099There's no such thing as written nonfiction my retarded friend.
No. Reading fiction still stimulates your brain much better than television/youtube/etc ever will
>>16478100this sentence doesnt even make grammatical sense. wtf are you even trying to say moron.
>>16478147Write a sentence in any language that isn't fiction.
>>16477889yeah but most thing that are possible haven't happened in history
>>16478641History has the constraints of reality.And history is better than fiction in just content too. Caesar's or Alexander's life makes for a better story than any fiction I've ever read, and I've read plenty. Reality is just much more awesome, complex, nuanced, multi-faceted, than a puny human brain can come up with. And then it's compounded by the fact that it actually happened.Shit like Tolkein good vs evil morality is just childish.
