No joke: I used to fall asleep listening to that lecture when I was a kid. I've probably heard it 100 times.
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Replying to @KevinSimler @literalbanana
how did that happen? Parents found it put you to sleep? Did you like it?
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Replying to @robamacl @literalbanana
Chess teacher gave me a cassette when I was ~10. And I loved Watts's accent, inflection, sense of humor.
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Just didn't trust his woo-woo angle on sciencey things.
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Replying to @KevinSimler @literalbanana
listening just now. He has a great voice, kind of preacher-like, but the rhythm is not so monotonous.
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he's right that the dumb universe doesn't make sense, unfortunately it seems to be true, modulo emergence.
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Replying to @robamacl @literalbanana
I take that passage ("figs/thistles/grapes/thorns," right?) as an experiment in refactored perception
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You can choose see the universe either way: (1) as fundamentally dumb (w/ emergence)...
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or (2) as having the rudiments of intelligence at a fundamental level (e.g., electrons perform computations)
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Replying to @KevinSimler @literalbanana
yes. I'm ok with the universe being intelligent at a mythic level, but I can't see purpose or inevitability.
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exactly. That was my problem with Watts for many years: I (mis)took him for preaching purpose/inevitability/etc.
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