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You ever think about stuff?

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Aye, of course.

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I mean, really think about stuff. Big stuff.

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What? Like elephants? Or jumbo-sized hot dogs?

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No, I mean the big questions. Like, what's it all about?

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What's what all about?

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Everything. The whole shebang.

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There was once a bunch of guys in Scotland

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who thought about stuff so much, they weren't sure they knew anything.

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They don't sound too smart to me!

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No, they were really brainy. Take this guy.

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David Hume questioned everything.

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Why this? How that? Everything!

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He questioned what we actually know about the world.

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Do we have any good reason

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to think any of the stuff around us is actually there?

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Eh?

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I mean, think about it. How can we know the world exists?

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Cos we're standing on it.

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Is that a fact?

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Mate, I need to tell you something.

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What is it?

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You're a brain in a jar.

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What you talkin' about?

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You know jars, mate? Glass jars?

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You get jam in them, chocolate spread in them?

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I've seen you put your fingers in them.

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Mmm. All the chocolate spread! That kind of jar.

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Well, that's what you're inside, right now, mate.

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And you're just a horrible wee wrinkly brain.

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Eh, how am I a brain in a jar, exactly?

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When I'm sitting here on your smelly couch

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watching the Wheelie Bin Rovers and Polybag United football match?

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You just perceive all of this to be real. Your trainers. Your ring.

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The telly.

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That framed painting of my maw wrestling that monkey in Mexico.

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But it's all just in your mind.

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You're just a brain in a mad scientist's jar, mate. I'm sorry.

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-A mad scientist, now?

-Aye. This mad scientist,

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this evil genius mad scientist guy from Motherwell.

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He zapped you out of your bed one night into his secret base

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under Loch Ness, and pulled your brain out.

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Stuck it in a jar, wired it up with some electrodes,

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stuck it on the mantelpiece. Then he had a fish supper.

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And why would he do that, exactly?

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Because he likes fish suppers.

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I mean the brain bit. Why would he take my brain?

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Just for a laugh. He's mad.

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I think I'd know if I was a brain in a jar, Jimmy!

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How would you?

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Well, I can see things, can't I? Brains don't have eyes!

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No, but brains can imagine things.

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You see stuff when you're dreaming, don't you?

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Aye, I see all sorts of stuff.

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I quite often see giraffes going camping.

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Which is a nightmare, because they cannae find sleeping bags

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long enough to keep their necks warm,

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and their heads keep bursting through the roofs of the tents.

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Aye, well, your eyes are shut when you're sleeping, mate.

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So how are you seeing the things you're seeing?

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Aye, right enough.

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But I can feel things, and all.

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Look!

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See?

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How can a brain in a jar feel your mad, squashy face?

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But are you feeling my squashy face? Or is your mind just telling you

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that you're feeling my mad, squashy face?

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Aw. Right enough.

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I mean, I can feel things in my dreams as well, can't I?

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Maybe I am a brain in a jar!

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You're a total brain in a jar, mate. Mad jar-heid. Told you.

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I might be on that mad scientist's mantelpiece right now!

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Help! Get me out of this jar!

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No, no, no, no. I'm not having you tell me this isn't real.

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I mean, it's common sense!

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Common sense? Davey, man, if all this was real,

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why would there be a sound man recording us talking?

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And why would there be a camera? And lights?

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Why would this football we're watching on the telly

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just be a hollowed out prop TV with a wee stuffed fox inside it?

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Aye.

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Come to think of it, how do we know that they...

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sorry, talking about you like you aren't even in the room...

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..how do we know that they aren't brains in jars, as well?

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Well, Davey, why would all these brains in all these jars

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all be imagining the same thing?

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Aye. So it must be one brain in one jar imagining all of this.

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Aye, and you're the one who definitely IS the brain in a jar,

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because it was me who told that mad scientist where you live

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because I wanted rid of you

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for eating all the chocolate spread, Davey.

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Which means all of this in here, except you in that jar must be...

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Oh, it's teeth time! Oh, no, it's teeth time!

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Oh, no!

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Oh, no! Oh, no!

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See? Just a wee squidgy brain in a jam jar.

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Aye, but what about the rest of us?

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What did Hume think?

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Hume said we can't prove that the world really exists.

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We use our senses, like our eyes and ears,

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but we've got no proof that they tell us anything about the world.

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This next guy doesn't look too happy about that!

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Thomas Reid.

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He agreed that you can't prove it, but disagreed that you HAVE to.

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He said it's natural to believe the world exists,

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so we have no reason to doubt it. Our common sense tells us it's there!

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So what do you think? Are you thinking? Are you really there?

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Hello?

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Boop!

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I told you I'd capture you one day, Nuisance.

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Well, it certainly makes a change

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from me walking all over you, Carpetman! Belter.

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Why are you always such a nuisance?

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Because I am The Nuisance,

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the Irritating Crown Prince of Really Doing-your-box-in-ness. Boop!

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Please, your patented boop sound is very annoying.

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Now, tell me where you've hidden the Mayor's clothes.

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Nope. I'm afraid the Mayor's going to have to be running around

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in the scud a little bit longer.

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Must you be so lacking in morals all the time?

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Boooop!

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You know the difference between right and wrong.

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Why always choose to do wrong?

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Because I am a selfish and self-interested, rather cliched,

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and very annoying baddie.

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If you are indeed so full of self-interest,

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you must want this world to be a comfortable place to live in.

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Comfortable for you.

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Yes?

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Hm. Yes. Where is this going, Carpetman?

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Even the most selfish of nuisances

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derive some pleasure from the pleasure of others.

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If that is the case, then where is this nuisance's morality?

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Please get out from under the table, you annoying wee nuisance!

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Boop!

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Do you derive pleasure from seeing pleasure, Nuisance?

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Pleasure such as seeing the laughter of a small child?

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I would rather eat my own sideburns in a sandwich

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than see any child happy! I HATE children!

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Sorry, no offence.

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An old man finding his long-lost dog?

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I'd rather see that old man finding out

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that his dog had done a bathroom in his bunnet, Carpetman.

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A smile.

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A simple smile across my face.

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You? Smile? Impossible!

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Would it please you if I smiled?

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Carpetman, smiling? That patterned pest with a smile? That fabric fool?

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That woven waster? That underlay... something.

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I've run out of carpet patter.

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Could I perhaps see a small preview

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of what that smile might look like, Carpetman?

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That's as far as it's going for now.

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Oh, yes! I would dearly like to see that full smile.

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Then do the right thing!

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Tell me where the mayor's underscants are

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so that I can cover up his buttocks!

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So if I do the right thing here, I stand to gain something?

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A smile from you?

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Yes. And a promise that I won't wallop you with my carpetarang.

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OK, OK, I'll tell you!

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The mayor's clothes are hidden...

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..under all your clothes!

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The mayor's tie, and his chain!

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How on earth did you...? Oh! This will be very annoying to resolve!

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Well, I guess that's why they call me... The Nuisance!

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Oh, for goodness sake, now!

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Where's my smile, Carpetman?

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Boooop!

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Boop!

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There's one of those philosophers.

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It's Adam Smith! We've got to help him!

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Should we? There's nothing in it for us, is there?

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Well, no, but if we don't help him he'll be squished,

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and his weans will be orphaned, and they'll have to get a job

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somewhere horrible, like a dandruff factory!

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And that upsets you?

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Aye!

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See, Smith called that "sympathy". We know it as "empathy".

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He believed that we share in people's pain

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and find pleasure in their happiness because it's in our nature.

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And if we help him we'll get a big thanks and a round of applause?

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Right. So you think we should help him?

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Yes!

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-APPLAUSE

-Please, it was nothing, really!

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Excuse me, mate. You got the time?

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-It's two o'clock.

-Aye, mate. But is it?

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-What?

-Is it two o'clock?

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Aye. I just saw the time on the clock outside.

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Did you? Did you really?

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Yes.

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Are you lying to me, mate?

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No! Why would I be lying about the time?

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I've never seen that weird long face of yours before in my life.

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-So why should I believe you?

-Seriously?

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You ask me to tell you the time and then you accuse me of lying about it?

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Tell me why I should believe you.

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Use your common sense, mate. Why would I lie?

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Oh, I don't know.

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Maybe because you want to make me late for my pie concert?

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Why would I want you, a guy I've never met in my life, to be late...

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Hold on. A pie concert?

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Yep. I'm going to see one of my favourite pies live on stage.

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Steak and kidney. Live. Farewell tour. So I need to know the time.

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-It's two o'clock.

-Don't you lie to me!

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I'm telling you the truth!

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Are you honestly saying I should just believe everything

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any Tom, Dick and Harry tells me? Are you that naive?

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I just believe that people generally tell the truth

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and want to be told the truth. It's human nature.

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And you don't believe that a monster like you would turn against

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that very human nature to make me late for my pie concert?

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No. It's two o'clock!

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You cannae disguise lies about pies, mate. I need evidence.

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Well, go outside and look at the clock yourself!

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No, I mean I need evidence that I can trust your testimony.

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I don't exactly smell the cheese of truth

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when I look into your eyes, mate.

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Why do you hate pies so much?

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What's going on here?

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Do I not have an honest face or something?

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Well, let's check this book of faces.

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Sneaky face, disgusting face,

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a face only a mother could love, a face full of lies about pies.

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Oh, and look, our sole honest face.

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Right, why don't you ask me some stuff that you know

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is definitely true?

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Right? Then we'll see if my "testimony", as you call it,

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is normally reliable.

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Well, first I'd need to know what you look like

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when you're definitely lying. So, say, "I am a pie."

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-I'm not saying that.

-Say it.

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-I am a pie.

-No, come on.

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Like you're really trying to convince me of your piedom.

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I am a pie.

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You're a pie, mate. Put some filling into it!

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I am a pie!

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Right. Let's get onto this reliable testimony now.

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Are pies tasty?

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Yes.

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Reliable. Are pies the best food in the whole wide world?

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-Yes.

-Also reliable.

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It's starting to look like maybe I am justified in believing you.

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Aye, well, we'll know for sure after the next 98 questions.

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98?! You'd be quicker going out to look at the clock yourself!

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This is no longer about the clock, pal. It's about you.

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It's about two opposing theories.

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It's about the pursuit of a deeper knowledge of human nature itself.

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And about pies. Mainly about pies.

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Right, carry on.

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Are all these questions about pies?

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Yep.

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It's just leaving two the now, so we've got all the time in the world.

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I would have just believed him and gone to that pie concert!

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Aye, but David Hume said you shouldn't always believe everybody.

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I mean, if somebody told you they'd seen a miracle,

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would you just accept it?

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A talking badger? I don't think so!

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Right. It's more likely that someone is lying or mistaken

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than there's been a miracle.

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But if no one believed anyone,

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how would we know what was going on in the world?

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I guess we wouldn't.

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Thomas Reid disagreed.

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For him, believing other people is a natural part of being human.

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We get important knowledge from what we're told,

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so we would be daft to ignore it.

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That's why we're justified in believing what other people tell us.

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So who do you believe?

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Are you sure you're not lying about all of this?

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Look it up if you want to!

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Aye, I think I'll do that. But hold on, how can I believe what I read?

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Hey, Lewis. Do you like my new haircut?

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'Oh, no! This is awkward.'

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'It's a really, really bad haircut, isn't it?'

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'If you tell your friend the truth...'

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Ha-ha-ha!

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'What'll happen?'

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'If you tell your friend what he wants to hear...'

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Hey, that's a beautiful haircut!

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'..then you'll be a liar.'

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Look at my new haircut.

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'Would you mind telling a lie if it made your friend happy?'

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Are you a fan of my impressive haircut?

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'What if we just figure out

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'what is going to bring about the most happiness and then do that?'

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My haircut.

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'Telling your friend that his awful haircut is nice

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'is going to bring about the most happiness, isn't it?'

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Your haircut is...

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'Wait!'

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'What if your lie leads to happiness for your friend right now

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'but humiliation later, at a party?'

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You told me my haircut was the nicest in the world. You've ruined my life!

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'If you tell him the truth,

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'he might get his haircut sorted before the party.'

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'So maybe telling the truth will cause short-term sadness...'

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'..but long term happiness.'

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Yeah!

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'So you should tell him the truth.'

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Kneel before my haircut.

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'So tell him.'

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Listen, your haircut is...

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'Wait!'

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'What party? Do you even know anyone who is having a party?'

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'So should we even consider that possibility at all?'

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'It can be hard figuring out

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'what's going to bring about the most happiness, can't it?'

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Hair!

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'Have I been helpful in any way?

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'I'm afraid you're on your own, pal.'

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Um...

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Er...

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Your haircut is...

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I understand.

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My new haircut is too impressive for words.

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Your haircut, on the other hand,

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is the worst haircut I've ever seen in my life.

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It's disgusting!

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I'm only saying this to you because I'm a true friend

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and I don't want people laughing at you.

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Get it sorted, man. Come on!

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Nightmare! So what should he have done?

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James Mill believed the right thing to do

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is whatever creates the most happiness.

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So right and wrong depends on how other people feel?

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Aye, and you should do the thing that brings about the greatest happiness.

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Easy.

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Hmmm. But suppose I was wanting to catapult your Uncle Kenny's trainers

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on the roof, and your Uncle Kenny's an eejit,

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so everybody would be happy. I should do it, aye?

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Er, no. This is Mill's son, John.

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He was a philosopher, too.

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He agreed about making people happy.

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But he added that you should avoid hurting others through your actions.

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Following this rule will bring about more happiness.

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Even if I don't like my Uncle Kenny either.

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Aye, all right.

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So with all these rules, we should know the right things to do!

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Aye, and yet somehow you still haven't paid back

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that tenner you owe me.

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Mmm. Mmm-mmm-mmm!

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You enjoying that, are you?

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Mate, it's like an angel came down from heaven

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and sprinkled magical sausage dust onto my lips.

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Oh, well. I did not enjoy mine. But that's fine,

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because it's better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

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So what you're saying is that Socrates didn't like sausages?

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I don't know if Socrates liked sausages.

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The point is that it's better to be me unhappy

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than it is to be you happy.

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So what you're saying is that you're Socrates?

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-Yes.

-And I'm a sausage?

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No. You're the fool.

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I'm a fool?! I'll no be having that, mate!

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All right. Let's say, instead, that you are a pig.

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-Well, in many ways I am a pig.

-HE BURPS

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Right. Well, even if you, the pig, are having the best day of your life,

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and I, the human, am having the worst day of mine,

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it's still better to be the human than the pig.

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No, no, no. It's better to be a pig in its comfiest slippers

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enjoying a nice roll in the mud

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than it is be a human not enjoying a sausage, mate.

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So are you saying that pleasure is all that matters?

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It's the only thing that matters, mate.

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Aye, but surely some pleasures are more valuable than other pleasures?

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Like what?

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Shakespeare.

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Now, if I was to go and see some Shakespeare,

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I might not have as much fun as a pig rolling about in the mud,

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but the Shakespeare would add more value to my life

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than the mud would to the pig.

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Can we make this about sausages again,

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because that's kind of more my speed.

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All right.

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The pleasure of watching Shakespeare

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is more worthwhile than the pleasure of eating sausages.

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Nah, mate. Sausages or Shakespeare? Sausages win.

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Nah, sausages or Shakespeare? Shakespeare wins.

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Shakespeare will have enriched your soul.

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Mate, I could create something more valuable

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than Shakespeare's best play in a second.

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Impossible.

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-I could.

-Show me.

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HE FARTS

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See? I enjoy a wee solo on the bum trumpet more than I've ever enjoyed

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any of his plays.

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Therefore, farting is also more valuable than Shakespeare.

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Rubbish.

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Better to be a big, cheery pig oinking out some glorious

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bum thunder than to be a human reading some boring Shakespeare.

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-Do you know who said that?

-Who?

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William Shakespeare.

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Don't make stuff up. Now, I'm going to read this, OK?

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Because reading a genius is the kind of thing

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a pig would never be fortunate enough to experience.

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Well, I'm going to be a pig right now,

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because a pig doesn't have to suffer your annoying conversations

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and I'm going to eat these sausages because I like eating sausages

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all the time, mate, I just love sausages!

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Better to be a happy pig.

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Better to be an unhappy human.

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HE SNORTS

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-Better to be a happy pig.

-HE FARTS

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Better to be an unhappy human...

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..sitting over there.

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Mmm! Mmm-mmm-mmm!

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So, let's look at this carefully.

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Here's a pig that lives its life in mud, happy as Larry.

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And what a life!

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And then there's Mill.

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He said you would have a more valuable life

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as an unhappy person than as a happy pig.

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Aye, he looks a bit grumpy, right enough.

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Mill hasn't been as consistently happy in his life.

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He's a right misery guts!

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But he did have quality moments of happiness,

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such as listening to his favourite music, or winning a game of tennis.

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So you're saying that there are different kinds of happiness?

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Right! Mill says his life is better

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because he's had more valuable happiness than the pig.

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Right, and the pig's called Larry?

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No, he's not called Larry. I said he's happy as Larry.

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Right. So who's Larry?

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Are you ready for a story, boys and girls?

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Today's story is called "The Bear Who Asked A Lot Of Questions".

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It was bedtime. Bondo the Bear pulled his blankets up over his hairy tummy

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and asked his Daddy a question.

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"Daddy, how do I know that I'll wake up in the morning

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"and not just sleep and sleep and sleep for a hundred years?"

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"Well," said Daddy Bear. "You don't. Night-night."

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"But, Daddy. Do you think I'm going to sleep for a hundred years?"

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asked Bondo. Daddy shook his head.

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"I'm not saying that it will happen, son.

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"I just can't guarantee that it won't. Sweet dreams."

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Bondo's daddy isn't really helping Bondo get to sleep, is he?

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He could just say,

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"Of course you're not going to sleep for a hundred years."

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But he's not completely certain that it's impossible, is he?

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Do you mind?

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"One more question, Daddy."

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"What is it?", sighed Daddy Bear.

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He wanted to go downstairs and play Bear Of Duty 4 on his Cavestation.

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"Can we be sure that the sun will come up tomorrow?" asked Bondo.

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"No," said Daddy bear. "Now go to sleep."

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I think we do know that the sun will rise in the morning.

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Not for certain we don't.

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Can I get back to reading the story to the boys and girls now, please?

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Does it have to be this story?

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I don't think I like Daddy Bear very much.

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Yes, well, Daddy Bear doesn't like you very much either.

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He said you wear your mum's pyjamas

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and your head smells like a sweaty badger doing press-ups in a bin.

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You know, you are always interrupting my stories.

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Do I ever interrupt your stupid songs?

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# I'm sitting on a bus I'm sitting on a bus! #

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"But Daddy," said Bondo. "The sun always comes up in the morning."

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"Just because something has always happened in the past,"

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replied Daddy Bear, "doesn't mean we can assume

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"that it will always happen in the future."

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"I've never put you to bed, then gone downstairs,

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"got hungry and ate your mum,

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"but it doesn't mean that I won't do it tonight."

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-Did you write this story?

-No.

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-Who was it, then?

-It was Charles Dickens.

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See! I knew it was you.

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Trying to get these wild ideas of yours across to the children.

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They are interesting ideas! What would you prefer?

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# I'm currently close to a table

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# I'm currently very close To a table! #

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When the silly, sock-breathed presenter stopped talking,

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Daddy Bear continued.

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"Bears have only been around for a fraction of the time

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"that the sun has. Perhaps we don't have all the information yet."

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"Maybe the sun comes up for a billion days in a row

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"and then goes off to another galaxy for a week's holiday."

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"We used to think the sun moved around the earth

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"before we got more information."

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Come on! We need to assume some things based on what we know.

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Otherwise life would be chaos.

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People need to assume that when they go to sleep at night

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they'll wake up the next morning.

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People need to assume that Tuesday will follow Monday.

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I need to assume that you're going to continue

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to make my life in this job a living nightmare.

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Every day. Every day!

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"One final..."

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Every day!

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"One final question, Daddy."

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"Every time I've ever thumped someone on the head with a book,

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"it's really hurt them."

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"Can I assume that it will really hurt them,

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"the next time I thump them?"

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"No," said Daddy Bear. And he switched off the light. The end.

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You knew that would hurt!

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Now that's my kind of story. What do you think, Hume?

0:26:480:26:51

Hey, what's wrong with Hume?

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He's thinking about a deep problem, the problem of knowledge.

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Oh, aye, I've met a lot of people with knowledge problems.

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I don't mean cleverness, stupid!

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I mean, how can we know anything?

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Like, if we throw a ball up in the air,

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how can we know what happens next?

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Well, obviously it'll fall back down again!

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But how do you know that?

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Because that's what happens. What goes up, must come down.

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I've seen it countless times!

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But what if you're in space?

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You throw a ball up there, it doesn't come back down, does it?

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Aye, well, it's different up there.

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So you can't say that every time a ball is thrown,

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it always falls back down.

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It's just in your experience that it has.

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But your experience isn't the same as knowledge.

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But don't people say you should learn from your experience?

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Well, it might help your survival to remember things,

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but Hume says it still doesn't show that you know anything.

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OK, someone must have proved him wrong.

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Not this time, you can't use reason

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to prove that your reasoning is right!

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So maybe that storybook was right.

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Maybe the sun does go for a holiday after a billion days!

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Maybe.

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So what does it all mean?

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It means that you should never stop asking questions.

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It means life is more exciting than you think!

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MUSIC: "What Goes On" by The Velvet Underground

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# What goes on in your mind?

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# I think that I am falling down

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# What goes on in your mind?

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# I think that I am upside down

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# Baby, be good, do what you should

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# You know it will work all right

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# Baby, be good, do what you should

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# You know it will be all right. #

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