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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - Why is life here?
00:04 I think a lot of people struggle with this
00:05 because they tend to mix the two.
00:08 Does it make you feel better as a human being?
00:10 Probably not.
00:11 (laughs)
00:11 (speaking in foreign language)
00:15 (dramatic music)
00:29 (speaking in foreign language)
00:31 (speaking in foreign language)
00:35 (gunshot)
00:44 - Are they killing a giraffe in a Danish zoo?
00:46 (speaking in foreign language)
00:50 - Well, it's horrible, it's horrific.
00:51 (speaking in foreign language)
00:54 The whole thing is cruel.
00:55 I mean, the dismemberment of this animal.
00:57 - It's not cruel, it's natural.
01:01 - Why would any species wanna move from water to land
01:04 unless that they had some kind of fantasy
01:07 about something better?
01:08 - You want to find some answer?
01:10 - I would like that, yeah.
01:13 - It's the inevitable results of an inquiry
01:18 into the nature of our own consciousness
01:19 that you look for the consciousness of other things.
01:23 (thunder)
01:25 - Cognitive states aren't things that happen within us.
01:29 They're things that happen in this space
01:31 between people.
01:32 - If we try and understand the living world
01:34 as a collection of individuals,
01:36 we're not going to get very far.
01:38 (speaking in foreign language)
01:42 - If it's all about survival of the fittest,
01:56 what a horrible earth we are living on, right?
02:01 What a terrible place.
02:02 (upbeat music)
02:05 (birds chirping)