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On Bishop George Berkeley’s Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713).

While only a goon would deny the real existence of things like tables and chairs, does “real” existence have to mean existence as matter, i.e. as something that could exist in the absence of any mind to think about it? Berkeley says no! Tables and chairs are ideas! But not just my ideas, or yours, as they obviously don’t disappear when we leave the room, and certainly trees and the like were around before people. So they’re God’s ideas! And hey, this chain of reasoning actually provides a proof for God’s existence! Sweet!

Wes tries to convince Mark and Dylan that this is actually compelling, well argued, and motivated by deep philosophical concerns that were historically central and still relevant today.

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Berkeley on Ideas - Partially Examined Life

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald on Audible:
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Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God, Scott...You are a fine writer. Believe it - not me." Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative - Tender Is the Night, Mabel Dodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of a "modern Orpheus". 

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Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Narrated by Therese Plummer

Alan Watts. Estonian composer, Arvo Part.

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"When you are perfectly free to feel stuck or not stuck, then you're unstuck."

Alan Watts - Disturbing Confusions Of The Mind

Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as John Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems.

TED Talks series: Johan Rockstrom- Let the environment guide our development

Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate.

TED Talks series: Lee Hotz- Inside an Antarctic time machine

In the Gulf oil spill's aftermath, Lisa Margonelli says drilling moratoriums and executive ousters make for good theater, but distract from the issue at its heart: our unrestrained oil consumption. She shares her bold plan to wean America off of oil -- by confronting consumers with its real cost.

TED Talks series: Lisa Margonelli- The political chemistry of oil

At TEDxUSC, Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments.

TED Talks series: Jane Poynter- Life in Biosphere 2

"I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr says in an emotional talk about climate change and investment. To create a world fit for his daughter to live in, he says, we need to invest now in clean, green energy.

TED Talks series: John Doerr- Seeking Salvation and Profit in Greentech

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Alan Watts: The Independent System –  No New Wave

Alan Watts - The Real You

Previously featured as the secret track on #AcidRap, "Paranoia" is Nosaj Thing and Chance The Rapper's contribution to Yours Truly and adidas originals "Songs from Scratch" series. 

Artwork by Mario Hugo

Watch/Listen to previous "Songs from Scratch" episodes from Shlohmo, Jeremih, Araabmuzik, Danny Brown, Joey Bada$$, Angel Haze, Lunice, Jacques Greene and Tinashe at http://yourstru.ly/songsfromscratch/

TED Talks series: Jane Poynter- Life in Biosphere 2

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