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Ep. 17 – Learning the Human Game

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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How to Invent New Forms of Behavior

"We've got to be stuck with all the forms of behavior," he says. "Why not try something different and see if it works? That's the question, isn't it?" He compares tic-tac-toe as a game that reduces itself to tossing a coin. The more times you toss a coin, the more is the probability that heads and tails will turn up in a 50-50 ratio,. So what? In other words, although each time you toss it, you've got a 50-half chance of which will turn up.

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