What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole Page #2

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in your nature of observation...

how memory works, how mind works-

It may very well be that

what is happening there...

is some kind of observer/matter

interrelationship...

which is indeed making

things real for you...

affecting how you perceive reality.

It's not changing the reality out there.

You know, you're not changing

big chairs and big trucks...

and bulldozers and rockets taking off.

You're not changing those. No.

But you're changing how

you perceive things...

and maybe how you think

about the things...

how you feel about things,

how you sense the world.

The infinite information...

that the brain is processing

every single second...

tells us that there's more to

the world than we're perceiving.

However, every single time...

we're immersed in an

experience with our senses-

seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling-

as we're immersed

sensually in our reality.

We know nothing about reality...

and all of our sense of

so-called reality out there...

is filtered through our sense organs.

The brain processes 400 billion

bits of information a second...

but we're only aware of 2,000 of those.

That means that reality's

happening in the brain all the time.

You should try it.

How do I know what I'm doing?

I and the vase are one.

Hey, it might help your work too.

I live through my eyes.

I deal in reality.

Not just some nebulous,

nothing, touchy-feely...

world of shifting whatevers.

If it's real, I want to see it.

The eyes are, in some

senses, a camcorder...

because they are taking

that information...

and they're storing

it, but they're not-

You're not really able to

get it to mean anything...

until you actually put it all together.

So in some senses, it requires the editor's

table to really put the whole thing together...

to put the movie together of what your

life and your world is actually about.

If I get out of bed

in the morning, okay...

and I suddenly decide, um,

to take very seriously...

the claim-which is

surely a true claim-

that I don't know for sure if my

eyes are working correctly, okay?

So that for all I know,

even though it looks...

like there's a stable floor

by the side of my bed...

there might be a cliff or

something like that, okay?

Um, if I am unable to

order those possibilities...

in terms of probabilities

that I assign to them...

then I'm not gonna get out of bed.

Seems to me I'm paralyzed in the

most literal sense of the word, okay?

I'm not, um, um-

I'm gonna have no idea how to

literally take the next step.

It's definitely the case

that we know that my eyes...

might in principle be

deceiving me at any moment.

We've had experience of people

before, subject to hallucinations.

And even if we didn't...

we don't know how to prove

as a fundamental matter...

that our eyes never deceive us.

That's absolutely right.

But when we make the decision to

get out of bed in the morning...

we are assigning probabilities

to the various hypotheses...

compatible with my

seeing a floor by the bed.

One hypothesis is, there really is a

floor there, and that's why I'm seeing it.

Another hypothesis is...

my seeing the floor is a hallucination,

and there's a cliff there.

By getting out of bed in the morning...

you endorse one of those hypotheses

as more likely than another.

Well, ultimate reality, I think...

very frequently depends a lot

on how a person perceives it...

and what they actually think is

- is the real reality of our world.

If the brain is processing 400

billion bits of information...

and our awareness is only on 2,000...

that means reality's happening

in the brain all the time.

It's receiving that information,

and yet we haven't integrated it.

But if we're given knowledge and

information outside of convention-

outside the box of convention-

or say we merged quantum

physics and neurophysiology...

and the brain is asked to contemplate-

or we're-we're asked to

contemplate on that...

and examine the what-ifs and

possibilities and potentials...

and associate our knowns with

our experience of what we know...

and repeat it over and over again...

the brain's gonna start to integrate

two independent neuronets...

and it's gonna create a new vision.

And that new vision's gonna

be like taking a flashlight...

and shining it from those

that have to do with our body...

and our environment and time...

slightly over, in the dark...

and looking at something new.

That's called realization.

You okay? I heard you scream

earlier. Was it another dream?

You were an Indian...

watching Columbus's ship

materialize out of thin air.

Wow!

And this medicine man kept hitting you.

Cool! That's

- Hey.

Maybe it was a past life...

or a parallel reality or a future life.

Get real.

Or maybe that dream was

trying to tell you the truth.

I guess it just depends

on what you think is real.

Maybe you should try

different anxiety pills.

My pills are fine, okay? Thank you.

Well, I have to go get dressed.

I hope you feel better, Amanda.

God, Amanda. You can be such an a**hole.

People ask me, why does

quantum mechanics matter...

given that it's all

- it's little tiny stuff

And who cares? There are

three possible answers.

From a practical point of view, it

doesn't make any difference at all.

You still have to go to work, drive

your car and do all the rest of it.

From a second point

of view, it actually-

it infiltrates everything in the world,

especially the world of electronics.

When you go to the supermarket and

you do the scanning at the checkout...

that's a quantum mechanical effect.

But I think the important

part is the third one...

which is essentially

a philosophical issue.

Why are philosophers so passionate...

about deconstruction the

assumptions of the world?

I finally got it. I got it as a result

of looking at quantum mechanics...

and comparing it to classical mechanics.

They present two very

different ways of thinking...

about the way that the world

works and about what we are.

So, from a classical

perspective, we are machines.

And in machines, there's no

room for a conscious experience.

Doesn't matter if a machine

dies. You can kill the machine.

You can throw it in the

dump. It doesn't matter.

If that is the way that the world is,

then people will behave in that way.

But there's another way of

thinking about the world.

It's pointed to by quantum mechanics...

which suggested that the world

is not this clockwork thing...

but it's more like an organism.

It's a highly interconnected

organismic thing of some type...

which extends through space and time.

In that kind of environment, what

I think and the way that I behave...

has a much greater impact, not only on

myself, but on the rest of the world...

than it would if it

was a classical world.

So, from a very basic point of view

having to do with morals and ethics...

what I think affects the world.

That's

- I mean, in a sense, that's really the key...

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