How do you know you exist? - James Zucker

Translator: Karl Hein

How do you know you're real?

Kuidas sa tead, et sa oled päris?

It's an obvious question until you try to answer it,

Küsimus kõlab jaburalt kuni üritad sellele vastata

but let's take it seriously.

aga võtame seda tõsiselt.

How do you really know you exist?

Kuidas sa tõesti tead, et sa oled olemas?

In his "Meditations on First Philosophy,"

Oma "Mõtisklustes Esimesest Filosoofiast"

René Descartes tried to answer that very question,

üritas René Descartes sellele küsimusele vastata

demolishing all his preconceived notions and opinions

tehes maatasa kõik oma senised teadmised ja arvamused

to begin again from the foundations.

et alustada algusest.

All his knowledge had come from his sensory perceptions of the world.

Kõik ta teadmised olid tulnud sellest, mida ta meeltega oli kogenud.

Same as you, right?

Nagu sul, eksole?

You know you're watching this video with your eyes, hearing it with your ears.

Sa tead, et vaatad seda videot oma silmadega ning kuuled seda kõrvadega.

Your senses show you the world as it is.

Meeled tutvustavad sulle maailma

They aren't deceiving you, but sometimes they do.

Üldiselt nad sind ei peta, aga vahel siiski.

You might mistake a person far away for someone else,

Kaugelt vaadates võid pidada mõnd inimest kellekski teiseks

or you're sure you're about to catch a flyball,

või siis olla kindel, et püüad palli kinni,

and it hits the ground in front of you.

aga ikkagi kukub see su ette maha.

But come on, right here and now,

Aga ikkagi, siin ja praegu

you know what's right in front of you is real.

tead sa ju mis sinu ees on tõeline.

Your eyes, your hands, your body: that's you.

Sinu silmad, sinu käed, su keha: see oled sina.

Only crazy people would deny that, and you know you're not crazy.

Ainult hullumeelsed eitaksid seda, ja sina pole ju hull.

Anyone who'd doubt that must be dreaming.

See, kes kahtleks selles, peaks und nägema.

Oh no, what if you're dreaming?

Oh ei, äkki sina näed und?

Dreams feel real.

Unenäod tunduvad tõelised.

You can believe you're swimming, flying

Sa võid uskuda, et ujud, lendad

or fighting off monsters with your bare hands,

võitled paljakäsi koletistega

when your real body is lying in bed.

samas kui su päris keha lamab voodis.

No, no, no.

Ei, ei, ei.

When you're awake, you know you're awake.

Kui oled ärkvel, siis oled ärkvel.

Ah! But when you aren't, you don't know you aren't,

Ah! Aga kui sa ei ole, siis sa ei tea, et sa ei ole,

so you can't prove you aren't dreaming.

nii et sa ei saa tõestada, et sa ei näe und.

Maybe the body you perceive yourself to have isn't really there.

Äkki keha, mida sa pead iseendaks, ei ole päriselt olemas.

Maybe all of reality, even its abstract concepts,

Äkki kõik reaalsus, isegi kõige üldisemad ideed

like time, shape, color and number are false,

nagu aeg, kuju, värv ja number on väärad

all just deceptions concocted

Lihtsalt pettused, mille on sepistanud

by an evil genius!

kuri geenius!

No, seriously.

Ei, päriselt.

Descartes asks if you can disprove the idea that an evil genius demon

Descartes küsib, kas sa saad tõestada et kuri geenius-deemon

has tricked you into believing reality is real.

ei ole sind pannud uskuma et reaalsus on olemas.

Perhaps this diabolical deceiver has duped you.

Võib-olla see deemonlik petis on sind ninapidi vedanud.

The world, your perceptions of it, your very body.

Maailm, sinu tajud, sinu keha.

You can't disprove that they're all just made up,

Sa ei saa tõestada, et need pole kõik välja mõeldud

and how could you exist without them?

ja kuidas sa oleksid olemas ilma nendeta?

You couldn't! So, you don't.

Ei olekski! Seega - sind pole olemas.

Life is but a dream,

Elu on kõigest unenägu.

and I bet you aren't row, row, rowing the boat merrily at all, are you?

Ja sa ei sõua, sõua, sõua oma paati sugugi nii rõõmsameelselt.

No, you're rowing it wearily

Ei, sa sõuad seda vaevaliselt.

like the duped, nonexistent doof you are/aren't.

Sest sa oled/ei ole petetud, olematu vaeseke

Do you find that convincing?

Kõlab see sulle usutavalt?

Are you persuaded?

Oled sa veendud?

If you aren't, good; if you are, even better,

Kui ei ole, siis hästi. Kui oled, veel parem.

because by being persuaded,

Sest kui sind saab veenda,

you would prove that you're a persuaded being.

oled sa ära veennatav olend.

You can't be nothing if you think you're something,

Sa ei saa olla mitte-midagi, kui arvad, et oled midagi,

even if you think that something is nothing

isegi, kui arvad et "miski" on mittemiski.

because no matter what you think, you're a thinking thing,

sest ükskõik, mida sa ka ei mõtle, sa oled mõtlev olend.

or as Descartes put it, "I think, therefore I am,"

või, nagu Descartes ütles: "Ma mõtlen, järelikult olen olemas,"

and so are you, really.

ja nii oled ka sina, tõesti.

(Airplane engine)

(Lennukimootor)