How do you know you exist? - James Zucker

Kako znate da postojite? - Džejms Cuker (James Zucker)

Prevodilac: Mile Živković Lektor: Dejan Vicai

How do you know you're real?

Kako znate da ste stvarni?

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

Pitanje je očigledno dok ne pokušate da odgovorite,

but let's take it seriously.

ali hajde da ga uzmemo za ozbiljno.

How do you really know you exist?

Kako zaista znate da postojite?

In his "Meditations on First Philosophy,"

U "Meditacijama o prvoj filozofiji", Rene Dekart je pokušao da odgovori na to,

René Descartes tried to answer that very question,

demolishing all his preconceived notions and opinions

rušeći sve unapred postavljene ideje i mišljenja kako bi krenuo ispočetka.

to begin again from the foundations.

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

Svo njegovo znanje dolazilo je iz njegove čulne percepcije sveta.

Same as you, right?

Kao i kod vas, 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 ušima.

Your senses show you the world as it is.

Vaša čula vam pokazuju svet kakav jeste.

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

Ona vas ne varaju, ali to ipak ponekad i rade.

You might mistake a person far away for someone else,

Izdaleka možete za nekog pomisliti da je neko drugi

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

ili ste sigurni da ćete uhvatiti loptu a ona padne na tlo pred vas.

and it hits the ground in front of you.

But come on, right here and now,

Ali hajde, ovde i sada, znate da je ovo ispred vas stvarno.

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

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

Vaše oči, ruke, telo. To ste vi.

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

Samo ludak bi to poricao, a vi znate da niste ludi.

Anyone who'd doubt that must be dreaming.

Svako ko bi sumnjao u to mora da sanja.

Oh no, what if you're dreaming?

O ne, šta ako vi sanjate?

Dreams feel real.

Snovi imaju osećaj stvarnosti.

You can believe you're swimming, flying

Možete verovati da plivate, letite ili se borite golim rukama s čudovištima,

or fighting off monsters with your bare hands,

when your real body is lying in bed.

dok vaše stvarno telo leži u krevetu.

No, no, no.

Ne, ne, ne. Kada ste budni, znate da ste budni.

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

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

Oh! 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 telo koje vi doživljavate zapravo nije tu.

Maybe all of reality, even its abstract concepts,

Možda je cela stvarnost, čak i njeni apstraktni pojmovi,

like time, shape, color and number are false,

poput vremena, oblika, boja i brojeva, možda je sve to lažno,

all just deceptions concocted

možda su sve to prevare koje je smislio zli genije.

by an evil genius!

No, seriously.

Ne, stvarno.

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

Dekart pita da li možete dokazati lažnom ideju da vas je zli genije demon

has tricked you into believing reality is real.

zavarao da mislite da je stvarnost stvarna.

Perhaps this diabolical deceiver has duped you.

Možda vas je namagarčio ovaj dijabolični prevarant.

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

Svet, vaša percepcija njega, samo vaše telo.

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

Ne možete dokazati da sve to nije izmišljeno,

and how could you exist without them?

i kako biste postojali bez toga?

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

Ne biste mogli! Stoga to i ne radite.

Life is but a dream,

Život je samo san, i kladim se da vam nije na kraj sela žuta kuća, zar ne?

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

No, you're rowing it wearily

Ne, crvena vam je, kao pravom namagarčenom tupanu koji jeste/niste.

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

Do you find that convincing?

Da li vam je to ubedljivo?

Are you persuaded?

Jeste li ubeđeni?

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

Ako niste, dobro - ako jeste, još bolje,

because by being persuaded,

jer biste time što ste ubeđeni dokazali da ste ubedljivo biće.

you would prove that you're a persuaded being.

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 iako mislite da je nešto ništa,

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

jer bez obzira šta mislite, vi ste misleća stvar,

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

ili kao što bi rekao Dekart: "Mislim, dakle postojim"

and so are you, really.

tako da i vi postojite, zaista.

(Airplane engine)