What The Bleep Do We Know Page #3

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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

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