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Insight and Ecstacy by Alan Watts

Alan Watts Lectures

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The Relationship Between the Doer and the Deed

There is no necessity in nature necessity is only logical, he says. If an unsupported rock didn't fall it wouldn't be a rock it'd be a balloon and the idea that a rock must necessarily fall is simply a consequence of description as vidgenstein pointed out. The difficulty is you see that a thought is as it were a system of symbols that stands apart from life and represents all actions to an agent according to him.

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