(September 15, 2021 at 11:17 am)Angrboda Wrote:(September 15, 2021 at 11:09 am)brewer Wrote: My thought, that was a waste of 37 minutes.
What if I told you that you may think you wasted 37 minutes but what you really wasted was 2,220 seconds behaving in minute-like fashion?
I'm surprised you posted that, Angrboda. Do you think it was the intention of the author of the video (or me) to get people to take something seriously that they in fact shouldn't? Like --(hippy voice)-- "woah man... do like... chairs exist?... this is the deepest shit ever..." It ain't like that.
The video ended by presenting Alan Watts' notion that the primordial Earth cooled down and started "peopleing." I know I am more apt to accept a biologists' model for how life began: it proceeded from the state of primordial Earth as a sort of "biological object." I am apt to say Alan Watt's view smells like New Age bullshit. Aren't you? Aren't you more apt to say: "Life is a biological object that sprang from the primordial soup."...? This notion of the Earth "peopling" needs to be defended. The notion that one or more "biological objects" formed from the primordial soup sounds more right to me.
But is it right? Is our intuitive way of slicing the world up into objects right at all? The video makes a pretty good case that it is an erroneous way of seeing the world. Isn't that an interesting question to you?
