Natural world versus the artificial world

In this video, Alan Watts talks about how humans, with their tools and technology, start to substitute the symbols they create with the physical reality of the natural world.

This lecture is from the mid 1960s, when computer technology was advancing at a high rate.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is artificial intelligence, not superior intelligence… it is a computer system that sucks intellectual property off the Internet and databases, which was created by humans, and produces requested outcomes mathematically or behaves in a way it was programmed for.

What is the backlash? What is an alternative? Can you get a break and pause? Can you get a rest? Go offline. Get away from symbols and into nature.