What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole Page #3

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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-

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