What The Bleep Do We Know Page #2

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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 ]

[ 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--

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