What The Bleep Do We Know

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[ Blows ]

[ Low Rumbling ]

[ Low Rumbling ]

[ Crackling, Rumbling ]

[ Low Rumbling Continues ]

[ Crackling, Rumbling ]

[ Chattering, Faint ]

[ Man ] What's going on,

and why am I here?

[ Explosion ]

- Where do we come from?

- What do quantum physics--

- Immense quantum mechanical isotopes.

- Physics of possibility.

Quantum mechanics allows--

[ Woman ]

Supreme mind.

- Brain is capable of millions--

- A neural net.

- Cascade of biochemical--

- An emotional response--

Molecules--

The brain does not know

the difference between...

what it sees in its environment

and what it remembers.

We are running

the holodeck.

Whatever way we observe

the world around us--

[ Woman ] So how can you continue

to see the world as real...

if the self that is determining it

to be real is intangible?

[ Popping ]

[ Brakes Squealing ]

[ Woman ] Are all realities

existing simultaneously?

Is there a possibility...

that all potentials

exist side by side?

Have you ever seen yourself through the eyes

of someone else that you have become...

and looked at yourself through the eyes

of the ultimate observer?

[ Man ]

Who are we?

Where do we come from,

what should we do...

and where are we going?

Why are we here? Well,

that is the ultimate question, isn't it?

What is reality?

What I thought was unreal,

now for me...

seems in some ways to be more real

than what I think to be real...

which seems now more

to be unreal.

You can't explain it, um...

and anybody who gets

too lost in try--

anybody who spends too much time

trying to explain it...

is likely to get lost forever

down the rabbit hole of mysteriousness.

I think the more you look

at quantum physics...

the more mysterious

and wondrous it becomes.

Quantum physics...

very succinctly speaking...

is a physics of possibilities.

These are questions--

These are addressing questions, um,

of how the world feels to us...

of-of whether there's a difference

between the way the world feels to us...

and the way it really is.

Have you ever thought about

what thoughts are made of?

I think some of the things

we're seeing with the children today...

is a sign that the culture

is in the wrong paradigm...

and not appreciating

the power of thought.

Every age, every generation

has its built-in assumptions--

That the world is flat,

or that the world is round, et cetera.

There are hundreds

of hidden assumptions...

things we take for granted,

that may or may not be true.

Of course, in the vast majority of cases,

historically, these things aren't true.

So presumably,

if history is any guide...

much about what we take for granted

about the world simply isn't true.

But we're locked into these precepts

without even knowing it of ten times.

That's a paradigm.

Modern materialism...

strips people of the need

to feel responsible...

and often enough,

so does religion.

But I think if you take quantum mechanics

seriously enough...

it puts the responsibility

squarely in your lap.

And it doesn't give answers

that are clear-cut...

and comforting.

It says, yes, the world is

a very big place. It's very mysterious.

Mechanism is not the answer, but I'm not

gonna tell you what the answer is...

because you're old enough

to decide for yourself.

Is everyone a mystery?

Is everyone an enigma?

They most certainly are.

Asking yourself these deeper questions

opens up new ways of being in the world.

It brings in

a breath of fresh air.

It makes life more joyful.

The real trick to life

is not to be in the know...

but be in the mystery.

[ Beeping, Chittering ]

[ Man Narrating ] Why do we keep

re-creating the same reality?

Why do we keep having

the same relationships?

Why do we keep getting

the samejobs...

over and over again?

In this infinite sea of potentials

that exist around us...

how come we keep re-creating

the same realities?

Isn't it amazing that we have options

and potentials that exist...

but we're unaware of them?

Is it possible that we're so conditioned

to our daily lives...

so conditioned to the way

we create our lives...

that we buy the idea that

we have no control at all?

We've been conditioned

to believe...

that the external world is more real

than the internal world.

This new model of science

says just the opposite--

It says what's happening within us

will create what's happening outside of us.

There's a physical reality

that is absolutely rock-solid...

and yet... it only--

If you wanna put it this way,

it only comes into existence...

when it bumps up against

some other piece of physical reality.

That other piece may be us, and of course,

we're partial to those moments...

but it doesn't

have to be either.

You know, it could be just

some incidental rock comes flying along...

and interacts with

this fuzzy mass of stuff...

and sure enough, it provokes it

into a particular state of existence.

There were philosophers in the past

that said, ''Look, if I kick a rock...

''and I hurt my toe, that's real.

''I feel that. It feels real.

It's vivid.

And that means

that it's reality.''

But it's still an experience, and it's still

this person's perception of it being real.

Scientific experiments have shown

that if we take a person and, uh...

hook their brains up to certain PET scans

or computer technology...

and ask them to look at

a certain object...

and they watch,

certain areas of the brain light up.

And then they've asked them

to close their eyes...

and now imagine

that same object.

And when they imagine

that same object...

it produced the same areas

of the brain to light up...

as if they were actually

visually looking at it.

So it caused scientists to

back up and ask this question.

So who sees then? Does the brain see?

Or do the eyes see?

And what is reality? Is reality

what we're seeing with our brain...

or is reality what

we're seeing with our eyes?

And the truth is is that the brain

does not know the difference...

between what it sees in its environment

and what it remembers...

because the same specific

neural nets are then firing.

So then it asks the question.:

What is reality?

[ Woman ] We're bombarded

by huge amounts of information...

and it's coming into our body,

and we're processing it--

coming in through our sense organs,

and it's percolating up and up...

- and at each step

we're eliminating information.

- [Jingling ]

And finally, what is bubbling up

to consciousness is...

the one that's

the most self-serving.

[ Man ] The brain processes

but we're only aware

of 2,000 of those.

But our awareness of those 2,000 bits

of information...

arejust about the environment,

our body and about time.

[ Rattles ]

[ Man ] We're living in a world where

all we see is the tip of the iceberg--

the classical tip of an immense

quantum mechanical iceberg.

- Hey, wow! You got a lot of shots to develop?

- No.

Oh, bummer.

Well, I'll catch you later.

[ Door Opens, Closes ]

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