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Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.59,0:00:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we really know, that that \Nwhich we see,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.00,0:00:14.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,touch and taste really exists?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.54,0:00:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is reality?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.55,0:00:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The objects or how we perceive them?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.19,0:00:21.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do we see the world as its is, \Nor is the world what it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.97,0:00:23.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we perceive it as such?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.53,0:00:24.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's imagine the following:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.94,0:00:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are in a cave, deep underground.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.30,0:00:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no visible daylight.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.86,0:00:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this cave, people are tied \Nto chairs in such a way
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.04,0:00:34.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they can only look at the cave wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.41,0:00:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the time \Nthey are born,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.90,0:00:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are shown black-and-white \Nmovies continuously.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.38,0:00:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The audience believes that the film\Nis a true reflection of reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.19,0:00:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What sounds like an experiment\Nfrom the 3rd Reich,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.84,0:00:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is actually a 2000-year-old mind game,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.67,0:00:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conceived by Socrates' star pupil:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.60,0:00:50.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plato!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.47,0:00:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now suppose,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.53,0:00:55.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that one of these bold youngsters \Nactually escapes from the cave
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.19,0:00:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sees the three-dimensional, colourful \Nworld for the first time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.04,0:01:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How would he feel?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.59,0:01:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably similar to the brave Keanu Reeves\Nin the "Matrix",
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.40,0:01:06.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the scene where he wakes up in\Nreal world for the first time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.41,0:01:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And worst of all,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.32,0:01:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if our ancient Neo were to \Nreturn to his friends
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.70,0:01:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tell them that the world \Nas they know it
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.34,0:01:14.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't real…
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.71,0:01:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then he would be dismissed as a madman.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.22,0:01:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to Plato, our reality\Nis based on 'ideas'
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.30,0:01:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Objects, and how we experience them,\Nare only their images.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.00,0:01:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, for Plato the term 'idea'\Nrepresented more.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.29,0:01:29.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was about the essence of all things,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.21,0:01:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that which we saw \Nas part of an ideal world
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.54,0:01:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that which we recalled from memory.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.66,0:01:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What he pioneered with this is a doctrine
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.08,0:01:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called "idealism",
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.53,0:01:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to which Leibnitz and Kant \Nlater also subscribed to.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.14,0:01:43.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, this does not mean \Ndiligently donating
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.47,0:01:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to victims of natural disasters
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.23,0:01:48.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or serving soup to the homeless \Nat Christmas.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.39,0:01:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as the real meaning of "materialism",
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.51,0:01:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't the "My house, My boat, My \Ninvestment advisor" song sung by Madonna
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.31,0:01:57.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the meaning of the Yuppie Lifestyle.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.69,0:02:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Materialism is the philosophical \Ncountermovement to idealism.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.09,0:02:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Idealism sees the origin \Nof reality in the "idea",
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.54,0:02:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whereas with materialism "matter" \Nis decisive.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.84,0:02:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thus, reality arises due to the \Neffect of the environment
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.60,0:02:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not by the way in which \Nwe perceive it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.02,0:02:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the question "What is?" \Nmaterialism answers:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.48,0:02:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.58,0:02:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world exists how it is
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.28,0:02:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we must conform to its laws.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.56,0:02:24.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sounds bleak in the long run, though,\Ndoesn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.94,0:02:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, are we just the ball\Nin a cosmic pinball machine then?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.93,0:02:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So where does reality lie?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.81,0:02:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within us or out there?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.58,0:02:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This game ends in a draw