Do Chairs Exist?

[vulcanlogician]

I read an Alan Watts book.  It had Zen in the title.  I don't remember much else except for thinking, Hume it ain't and at least the other guy talked about motorcycles.

So I want to ask, is Watts generally taken seriously as a philosopher?

In academic circles. No way. Watts isn't taken seriously. Nor should he be IMO.

Much more important is if he is wrong and why he is wrong. If Watts is wrong, why is he wrong, as you see it, Ranjr?

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I can relate to that sentiment. Although I'm too interested in the subject matter to consider it a waste of time. 

I don't think you're going to glean anything practically useful from the video. (At least not anything immediately practically useful.)-- but. It does show us that what we assume to be simple fact is not so simple, and (indeed) isn't a fact. How important that is varies from person to person. It's dreadfully important to me, because I want to know what the foundations of knowledge are. 

If you're just looking for something to sit on, however, the default intuition (chairs are real) works just fine.

Mail me some shrooms and I'll try watching again.

I don't advocate watching the thing twice. Just watch it once. Though... if you're getting shrooms in the mail, maybe you've already seen it.

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And I hate to ask, but could you mail me some shrooms? I am without.