What the %23$*! Do We (K)now!?
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They're all possibilities
of consciousness.

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You now can see in numerous labs
around the United States...

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objects that are large enough
to be seen by the naked eye...

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and they are in
two places simultaneously.

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- You can actually take a photograph of that.
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Now, I suppose if you showed a photograph,
they'd say, ''Oh. Great.

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''Here's this nice blob of colored light,
and I see there's...

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''a bit of it over here and another bit--
So you've got a picture of two dots.

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What's the big deal?''
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You say, ''Look right in the chamber.
You can see it right there.''

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''I see two things there.''
''No, no. That's not two things--

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That's one thing.
It's the same thing in two places.''

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I'm not sure that people's
jaw would drop about it...

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because I think--
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I don't think people
really believe it.

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And I don't mean that people say, ''Oh, you're
lying,'' or ''Oh, the scientists are confused.''

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I-I think it is so mysterious that you
can't even understand how amazing it is.

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And then, furthermore,
you've seen Star Trek and whatnot.

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''Beam me up, Scotty.''
So it all seems sort of...

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''Oh, well, what does
that really mean?''

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But you've gotta really stop and
think about what that means--

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That it's the same object
and it's in two places at once.

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When people tinker in the lab, and they get
angry about things, and they have lunch...

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and they go home
and they lead their lives...

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just as though nothing
utterly astounding is happening...

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because that's how
you have to go about it--

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And yet, there's this
completely amazing magic...

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sitting right in front
of your eyes.

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[ Man ] Quantum physics
calculates only possibilities...

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but if we accept this,
then the question immediately comes...

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who, what, chooses among
these possibilities...

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to bring the actual event
of experience?

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So we directly, immediately see
that consciousness must be involved.

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The observer cannot be ignored.

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