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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.69,0:00:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you know you're real?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.09,0:00:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an obvious question\Nuntil you try to answer it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.96,0:00:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but let's take it seriously.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.68,0:00:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you really know you exist?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.16,0:00:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his "Meditations on First Philosophy,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.87,0:00:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,René Descartes tried to answer\Nthat very question,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.04,0:00:26.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,demolishing all his preconceived\Nnotions and opinions
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.17,0:00:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to begin again from the foundations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.99,0:00:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All his knowledge had come\Nfrom his sensory perceptions of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.30,0:00:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Same as you, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.67,0:00:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know you're watching this video\Nwith your eyes, hearing it with your ears.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.42,0:00:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your senses show you the world as it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.30,0:00:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They aren't deceiving you,\Nbut sometimes they do.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.19,0:00:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might mistake a person\Nfar away for someone else,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.06,0:00:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you're sure you're about\Nto catch a flyball,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.47,0:00:50.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it hits the ground in front of you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.67,0:00:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But come on, right here and now,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.52,0:00:54.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what's right\Nin front of you is real.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.79,0:00:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your eyes, your hands,\Nyour body: that's you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.39,0:01:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only crazy people would deny that,\Nand you know you're not crazy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.86,0:01:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone who'd doubt that must be dreaming.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.36,0:01:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh no, what if you're dreaming?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.40,0:01:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dreams feel real.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.11,0:01:10.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can believe you're swimming, flying
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.09,0:01:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or fighting off monsters\Nwith your bare hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.58,0:01:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when your real body is lying in bed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.05,0:01:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, no, no.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.09,0:01:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you're awake, you know you're awake.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.43,0:01:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah! But when you aren't,\Nyou don't know you aren't,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.78,0:01:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you can't prove you aren't dreaming.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.99,0:01:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe the body you perceive\Nyourself to have isn't really there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.05,0:01:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe all of reality,\Neven its abstract concepts,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.99,0:01:36.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like time, shape, color\Nand number are false,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.46,0:01:38.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all just deceptions concocted
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.31,0:01:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by an evil genius!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.29,0:01:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, seriously.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.98,0:01:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Descartes asks if you can disprove\Nthe idea that an evil genius demon
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.89,0:01:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has tricked you into\Nbelieving reality is real.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.58,0:01:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps this diabolical\Ndeceiver has duped you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.99,0:01:56.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world, your perceptions\Nof it, your very body.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.79,0:01:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't disprove\Nthat they're all just made up,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.72,0:02:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how could you exist without them?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.84,0:02:03.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You couldn't! So, you don't.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.85,0:02:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life is but a dream,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.84,0:02:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I bet you aren't row, row,\Nrowing the boat merrily at all, are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.29,0:02:11.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, you're rowing it wearily
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.96,0:02:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the duped, nonexistent\Ndoof you are/aren't.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.23,0:02:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you find that convincing?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.80,0:02:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you persuaded?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.07,0:02:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you aren't, good;\Nif you are, even better,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.26,0:02:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because by being persuaded,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.23,0:02:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would prove\Nthat you're a persuaded being.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.13,0:02:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't be nothing\Nif you think you're something,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.77,0:02:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if you think\Nthat something is nothing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.20,0:02:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because no matter what you think,\Nyou're a thinking thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.61,0:02:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or as Descartes put it,\N"I think, therefore I am,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.33,0:02:43.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so are you, really.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.80,0:02:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Airplane engine)