How do you know you exist? - James Zucker

Kako znate da ste stvarni? - James Zucker

Prevoditelj: Martina Valković Recezent: Mislav Ante Omazić - EFZG

How do you know you're real?

Kako znate da ste stvarni?

Pitanje je očito, sve dok ne pokušate odgovoriti na njega,

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

but let's take it seriously.

ali, shvatimo ga ozbiljno.

How do you really know you exist?

Kako, zaista, znate da postojite?

In his "Meditations on First Philosophy,"

U svojim "Meditacijama o prvoj filozofiji",

René Descartes tried to answer that very question,

René Descartes je pokušao dati odgovor na upravo to pitanje,

demolishing all his preconceived notions and opinions

rušeći sve svoje prethodno stvorene pojmove i mišljenja,

to begin again from the foundations.

kako bi počeo iznova od temelja.

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

Sve njegovo znanje dobiveno je osjetilnom percepcijom svijeta.

Same as you, right?

Baš kao i vaše, zar ne?

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

Znate da gledate ovaj video svojim očima, slušate ga svojim ušima.

Your senses show you the world as it is.

Vaša osjetila pokazuju vam kakav je svijet.

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

Ona vas ne varaju, osim ponekad.

You might mistake a person far away for someone else,

Možete zamijeniti osobu na velikoj udaljenosti za neku drugu

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

ili biti sigurni da ćete uhvatiti loptu u letu,

and it hits the ground in front of you.

a onda ona padne na tlo ispred vas.

But come on, right here and now,

No, hajde, upravo sada i upravo ovdje,

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

znate da je ono što se nalazi pred vama stvarno.

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

Vaše oči, vaše ruke, vaše tijelo: to ste vi.

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

Samo bi luđak to zanijekao, a vi znate da niste ludi.

Anyone who'd doubt that must be dreaming.

Svatko tko sumnja u to zasigurno sanja.

Oh no, what if you're dreaming?

Oh ne, a što ako sanjate?

Dreams feel real.

Snovi se čine stvarnima.

You can believe you're swimming, flying

Možete vjerovati da plivate, letite

or fighting off monsters with your bare hands,

ili se borite protiv čudovišta svojim golim rukama,

when your real body is lying in bed.

dok vaše stvarno tijelo leži na krevetu.

No, no, no.

Ne, ne, ne.

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

Kada ste budni, znate da ste budni.

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

Ah! Ali kada niste, ne znate da niste,

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

tako da ne možete dokazati da ne sanjate.

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

Možda tijelo koje percipirate kao vlastito ustvari ne postoji.

Maybe all of reality, even its abstract concepts,

Možda je sva stvarnost, čak i njeni apstraktni pojmovi,

like time, shape, color and number are false,

poput vremena, oblika, boje i broja, lažna,

all just deceptions concocted

sve je samo obmana

by an evil genius!

zlog genija!

No, seriously.

Ne, ozbiljno.

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

Descartes se pita možete li osporiti mogućnost da vas je zli, genijalni demon

has tricked you into believing reality is real.

prevario da mislite da je stvarnost stvarna.

Perhaps this diabolical deceiver has duped you.

Možda vas je ovaj đavolski obmanjivač nasamario.

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

Svijet, vaše percepcije njega, vaše vlastito tijelo.

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

Ne možete dokazati da nisu samo izmišljeni,

and how could you exist without them?

a bez njih kako možete postojati?

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

Ne možete! Dakle, ne postojite.

Life is but a dream,

Život je samo san,

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

a kladim se da vi ne veslate kroz njega veselo, zar ne?

No, you're rowing it wearily

Ne, veslate umorno

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

poput nasamarenog, nepostojećeg blesana kakav i jeste/niste.

Do you find that convincing?

Smatrate li to uvjerljivim?

Are you persuaded?

Jeste li uvjereni?

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

Ako niste, dobro; ako jeste, još bolje,

because by being persuaded,

jer, bivajući uvjerenima,

you would prove that you're a persuaded being.

dokazali biste da ste uvjereno biće.

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

Ne možete biti ništa ako mislite da ste nešto,

even if you think that something is nothing

čak i ako mislite da je to nešto ništa,

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

jer bez obzira što mislite, vi ste stvar koja misli,

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

ili, kako je Descartes to sročio, "mislim, dakle postojim",

and so are you, really.

a tako i vi postojite, zaista.

(Airplane engine)

(Zvuk avionskog motora)