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Alan Watts's dream thought experiment

lecture by Alan Watts

Tamir retells it: if you could dream any dream for 10,000 years, getting everything you want, you would eventually tire of certainty and end up dreaming the uncertain life you have now. He uses it to argue there is beauty in the unknown.

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