
Alan Watts Philosophy Lecture
Alan Watts Lectures
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Is There a Complexity of Environment in Nature?
It does not occur, you see, to the ordinary civilized person to regard himself or herself as an expression of the whole universe. It should be obvious that we cannot exist except in an environment of earth, air, water and solar temperature. All these things are as important to us as our internal organs, heart, stomach, brain and so forth. You do not find in nature faces arriving in the world sui generis. They go with a body, but also bodies do not arrive in a world which would be, for example, a plain ball of scrubbed rock floating without an atmosphere far away from a star. That will not grow bodies. So bodies go with a very complicated natural
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