What The Bleep Do We Know Page #2

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[ Man ] If the brain is processing

and our awareness

is only on 2,000--

- [ Hits Ground ]

- that means reality's happening

in the brain all the time.

It's receiving that information,

and yet we haven't integrated it.

The eyes are like the lens.

But the tape that's really

seeing is the back of the brain.

It's called the visual cortex.

It's right back here.

It's like this camera

and its tape.

Did you know that the brain imprints

what it has the ability to see?

This is important.

For example:

This camera is seeing

a lot more around me...

than what is here...

because it is-- has no objection

and no judgment.

The only movie that's playing

in the brain...

is what we have

the ability to see.

So is it possible our eyes,

our cameras...

see more than what our brain...

has the ability

to consciously project?

[ Woman ]

Well, the way our brain is wired up...

we only see what

we believe is possible.

Um, we match patterns

that already...

uh, exist within ourselves

through conditioning.

So, a wonderful story

that I believe is true...

is that when the Indians--

the Native American Indians...

on the Caribbean Islands saw

Columbus's ships approaching...

they couldn't see them at all.

Because it was so...

unlike anything they had ever seen before,

they couldn't see it.

[ Man ] When Columbus's armada

landed in the Caribbean...

none of the natives

were able to see the ships...

even though they existed

on the horizon.

The reason that they never saw

the ships was because...

they had no knowledge in their brains,

or no experience, that clipper ships existed.

So the shaman starts to notice that

there's ripples out in the ocean,

but he sees no ship...

but he starts to wonder

what's causing the effect.

So every day he goes out

and looks and looks and looks.

And after a period of time,

he's able to see the ships.

And once he sees the ships, he tells

everybody else that ships exist out there.

Because everybody trusted and believed

in him, they saw them also.

[ Explosion ]

[ Man ] We create reality.

We're reality-producing machines.

We create the effects of reality

all the time.

[ Man ] We always perceive something

after reflection in the mirror of memory.

- [ Screaming ]

- [ Gasps ]

- [ Shutter Clicks ]

As far as whether or not we're just living

in a big holodeck or not...

it's a question we don't necessarily

have a good answer to.

I think this is a big philosophical problem

we have to deal with...

in terms of what science

can say about our world...

because we are always

the observer in science.

So we are still

always constrained...

by what is ultimately coming

into the human brain...

that allows us to see and

perceive the things we do.

So it is conceivable that all of this

really is just a great illusion...

that we have no way of really getting

outside of to see what is really out there.

Your brain doesn't know the difference

between what's taking place out there...

and what's taking place in here.

There is no ''out there'' out there

independent of what's going on in here.

You okay? I heard you scream earlier.

Was it another dream?

- [ Mouths Words ]

- You were an Indian...

watching Columbus's ship

materialize out of thin air.

Wow.

And this medicine man

kept hitting you.

[ Gasps ] 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.

Mmm. I hope you

feel better, Amanda.

[ Door Closes ]

God, Amanda.

You can be such an a**hole.

[ Sighs ]

[ Man ] There actually are choices

in the direction of how a life can go...

that are contingent upon

small-level quantum effects...

not being washed out.

First of all, let's talk

about the subatomic world...

and then we'll talk about what

it's telling us about reality.

The first thing I wanna tell you

about the subatomic world...

is it's totally a fantasy created by

mad physicists trying to figure out...

what the heck is goin' on

when they do these little experiments.

By little experiments, I mean big energy

in little spaces in little pieces of time.

It gets pretty nutty

at that realm of things...

and so subatomic physics was invented

to try to figure that all out.

We need a new science down there,

and it's called quantum physics...

and it is subject to a whole

range of debatable hypotheses...

thoughts, feelings, intuitions

as to what the heck is really going on.

Matter is not what we have

long thought it to be.

Uh-- To the scientists, matter has always

been thought of as sort of the ultimate...

in that which is static

and predictable.

Within all the atoms and molecules,

all the space within them...

the particles take up

an insignificant amount of the--

of the volume of an atom or molecule,

the fundamental particles.

The rest of it is vacuum.

What seems to happen is that particles

appear and disappear all the time.

So where do they go

when they're not here?

Now, that question is tricky.

I'm gonna give you two answers--

Answer number one:

They go into

an alternative universe...

where the people in that universe

are asking the same question...

about those particles when

they come into our universe.

They say, ''Where do they go?''

[ Chuckles ]

[ Man ] There's a great mystery called

the mystery of the direction of time.

There's a certain sense in which the

fundamental laws of physics that we have...

don't make any interesting distinctions,

say, between past and future.

Um, for example, it's a puzzle from the standpoint

of the fundamental laws of physics...

why we should be able to...

um, remember the past, um...

and not have the same kind

of epistemic access to the future.

It's a puzzle from the standpoint

of these laws...

why we should think something like

by acting now...

we can affect the future

but not the past.

These things-- that we have a different kind

of epistemic access to the past and future...

that we have a different kind

of control by acting now...

over the future

than we do over the past...

these things are so fundamental

to the way we experience the world...

that, um-- um--

that it seems to me,

not to be curious about them is to be...

you know, three-quarters

of the way to being dead.

Wanna shoot some hoops?

Now, you don't have

to be like that.

Come on and play.

Look. He likes you.

Don't you have time for

a little one-on-one?

How long has it been

since you played?

[ Chuckles ] Come on.

You got the ball. Take a shot.

No, no, no, milady.

Not from there. It's out-of-bounds.

You gotta be on the court

to be in play.

[ Sighs ]

Welcome to Duke Reginald's

Court of Unending Possibilities.

[ Sighs ]

- [ Grunts ]

- Court rules-- Gotta sink the last one.

- That hurt.

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