This is absolutely authentic Alan Watts. I have listened to hours and hours of him. I’ve learned that if you don’t hear the laugh or cough. It’s AI. He laughs and or coughs 99% of his lectures.
I don't claim to be an expert, but I have a lot of respect for Watts and don't want to misrepresent him. There are lots of subtle hints and some obvious things to help distinguish an audio files authenticity. I record a lot of music and subtle things like frequency of the dead air being consistent throughout. It isn't hard to run a filter to enhance that dead air and you will hear the difference, like a place where you paused when recording on old magnetic tape. AI voice emulation is good but Watts was just too expressive and apt to take side roads in his lectures which sets a pace and a range of expression that if Ai could replicate it, it would take a lot of time to generate things like a good gut laugh, and to manually edit the pace of speech to make it believable. So far AI Watts voices sound like he is reading a ransom letter into a camer held by an economically saavy abductor, or like he was being forced to read it but wanted to be obvious to the listener that he was not enjoying himself.
Even if it was AI, it’s the message that counts? Yeah but we don’t want to waste our time listening to figure out if the message was Alan Watt’s wisdom, rather than some bullshit message written by an idiot.
...🥰this is so amazing, and covers, many aspects of spirituality, that I am trying to achieve..Thank you Alan Watts 💜 and thanks to those posting these talks!!! 😉👍🏻
My life was changed by these lectures and Taoist philosophy. I encountered them at the beginning of the pandemic and the made those years the best of my life. If one person gains from them what I did, the time is worth it.
How can the world spin without time. The world must be imagined to have any reality at all. So we are silent still awareness in the moment watching our Self in the present.
I don't plan to end it. I will be starting to upload more original videos soon, but will continue uploading Watts lectures until I run out of lectures post
The people who say - it doesn’t matter if it is Alan Watts or not - I don’t understand that. If someone posts a cover of music you like and know and attributes it to the band that it is a cover of - does that not matter to you, it’s the music that counts so it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not that it’s really the band or not?
I am with you. AI generated lectures dilute his legacy. I would compare someone discovering Watts through AI imposters would be like discovering Pink Floyd as a cover band at a dive bar.
I hate that they flood Alan watts with ads to make money off his teachings, and they do use ai to try and get views off impersonation. It is wrong because you’re tainting his teachings for someone else’s. This is Alan watts though.
Ad revenue goes to the copyright holder which isn't me. And I will not use anything I suspect as AI produced. I don't profess to be an expert but have listened to a lot of Watts, and have worked close enough with the technology to know its limitations so I feel I'm pretty good at picking out AI voice emulation.
@@ArtofZentrification yeah i said this is for sure Alan watts, I've been a listener for 10 years now of him, I guess the point was its a buzz kill to be in a meditative state relaxing listening to the lecture to be bombarded with like 5 different ads lol.
Silly, silly Allan... With all your knowledge and the predictions you did in a other talk You couldn't imagine how long your teachings will last thanks to the recordings on those tapes
Alan Watts, in his audacious wisdom, delved into the notion of "irreducible rascality" within human nature. He saw it as a way to grasp the paradoxical and whimsical facets of our existence. At the core of our moral facades, beneath the societal scripts and our polished self-images, lies a cheeky spirit-a "rascal" that mocks predictability and righteousness. But don't twist this into something purely naughty or immoral. Watts embraced "rascality" as a playful essence. It's that untamed spark within each of us that defies the chains of societal expectations and rigid identities. He celebrated this rascal as an essential, natural element of our humanity. It embodies our innate urge to revolt against the mundane, to seek the thrill of the unknown, and to dance through life with a devil-may-care grin and a touch of irreverence. I discovered Watts at the beginning of the pandemic after 20 years of destructive self-loathing and indifference towards life. What I am going to tell next you may at first come across as selfish but I can't help but feel that I am not alone in this thought. Maybe a man of supposed spiritual maturity died of alcoholism so that people like me could set down our burden long enough to mature emotionally, find meaning in spirituality and not die of alcoholism.
Definitely not. Yesterday when I replied to the same thing but I expressed that I was pretty sure but not certain. It was recorded in 1967 as a part of a four part series. I searched it based on the copyright ID. You can purchase the extended 4 part series from the Alan Watts website. This is part 2 of the 4.. alanwatts.com/products/the-future-seminar-series?srsltid=AfmBOopFCBqLo9gPoi85m56ZgjZZiDInOzJooLLNDx4q85zb6dRuoyK_
This is absolutely authentic Alan Watts. I have listened to hours and hours of him. I’ve learned that if you don’t hear the laugh or cough. It’s AI. He laughs and or coughs 99% of his lectures.
I have listened to MANY HOURS of Alan Watts. This is his voice NOT AI. And no big deal if it was AI. It’s the message that counts.
I don't claim to be an expert, but I have a lot of respect for Watts and don't want to misrepresent him. There are lots of subtle hints and some obvious things to help distinguish an audio files authenticity. I record a lot of music and subtle things like frequency of the dead air being consistent throughout. It isn't hard to run a filter to enhance that dead air and you will hear the difference, like a place where you paused when recording on old magnetic tape. AI voice emulation is good but Watts was just too expressive and apt to take side roads in his lectures which sets a pace and a range of expression that if Ai could replicate it, it would take a lot of time to generate things like a good gut laugh, and to manually edit the pace of speech to make it believable. So far AI Watts voices sound like he is reading a ransom letter into a camer held by an economically saavy abductor, or like he was being forced to read it but wanted to be obvious to the listener that he was not enjoying himself.
Even if it was AI, it’s the message that counts? Yeah but we don’t want to waste our time listening to figure out if the message was Alan Watt’s wisdom, rather than some bullshit message written by an idiot.
Yup. AI is a part of us. Fighting it is like fighting ourselves.
You are so spot on❤🙏☯️🕉️☸️
Yea this is original, no AI.
Been listening to watts for 20 years, this isn't ai.
...🥰this is so amazing, and covers, many aspects of spirituality, that I am trying to achieve..Thank you Alan Watts 💜 and thanks to those posting these talks!!! 😉👍🏻
My life was changed by these lectures and Taoist philosophy. I encountered them at the beginning of the pandemic and the made those years the best of my life. If one person gains from them what I did, the time is worth it.
@@ArtofZentrificationThat's In Lak'ech Ala K'in maybe 🤔
Worst thing is ads really takes you out of the speech 😢
How can the world spin without time. The world must be imagined to have any reality at all. So we are silent still awareness in the moment watching our Self in the present.
Keep the channel going 😃 love listening to Alan Watts
I don't plan to end it. I will be starting to upload more original videos soon, but will continue uploading Watts lectures until I run out of lectures post
The people who say - it doesn’t matter if it is Alan Watts or not - I don’t understand that. If someone posts a cover of music you like and know and attributes it to the band that it is a cover of - does that not matter to you, it’s the music that counts so it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not that it’s really the band or not?
I am with you. AI generated lectures dilute his legacy. I would compare someone discovering Watts through AI imposters would be like discovering Pink Floyd as a cover band at a dive bar.
What are the noises in the background? Is he at a sliding blackboard
🐘💛💛💛💛🐘
I hate that they flood Alan watts with ads to make money off his teachings, and they do use ai to try and get views off impersonation. It is wrong because you’re tainting his teachings for someone else’s. This is Alan watts though.
Ad revenue goes to the copyright holder which isn't me. And I will not use anything I suspect as AI produced. I don't profess to be an expert but have listened to a lot of Watts, and have worked close enough with the technology to know its limitations so I feel I'm pretty good at picking out AI voice emulation.
@@ArtofZentrification yeah i said this is for sure Alan watts, I've been a listener for 10 years now of him, I guess the point was its a buzz kill to be in a meditative state relaxing listening to the lecture to be bombarded with like 5 different ads lol.
Silly, silly Allan... With all your knowledge and the predictions you did in a other talk You couldn't imagine how long your teachings will last thanks to the recordings on those tapes
I’m not sure if he would be surprised or disgusted.
Primero
How come a man of supposed spiritual maturity died of alcoholism,
Humans😂
Alan Watts, in his audacious wisdom, delved into the notion of "irreducible rascality" within human nature. He saw it as a way to grasp the paradoxical and whimsical facets of our existence. At the core of our moral facades, beneath the societal scripts and our polished self-images, lies a cheeky spirit-a "rascal" that mocks predictability and righteousness.
But don't twist this into something purely naughty or immoral. Watts embraced "rascality" as a playful essence. It's that untamed spark within each of us that defies the chains of societal expectations and rigid identities. He celebrated this rascal as an essential, natural element of our humanity. It embodies our innate urge to revolt against the mundane, to seek the thrill of the unknown, and to dance through life with a devil-may-care grin and a touch of irreverence.
I discovered Watts at the beginning of the pandemic after 20 years of destructive self-loathing and indifference towards life. What I am going to tell next you may at first come across as selfish but I can't help but feel that I am not alone in this thought. Maybe a man of supposed spiritual maturity died of alcoholism so that people like me could set down our burden long enough to mature emotionally, find meaning in spirituality and not die of alcoholism.
Life's rough and no one has all the answers. We're human and fallible and that's the beauty of it.
AI
Definitely not. Yesterday when I replied to the same thing but I expressed that I was pretty sure but not certain. It was recorded in 1967 as a part of a four part series. I searched it based on the copyright ID. You can purchase the extended 4 part series from the Alan Watts website. This is part 2 of the 4..
alanwatts.com/products/the-future-seminar-series?srsltid=AfmBOopFCBqLo9gPoi85m56ZgjZZiDInOzJooLLNDx4q85zb6dRuoyK_