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How do you know you exist? - James Zucker

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How do you know you’re real? Is existence all just a big dream? Has some mad scientist duped us into simply believing that we exist? James Zucker investigates all of these questions (and more) in this mind-boggling tribute to René Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy.

Watch the video and finish the Think section to complete the lesson.


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Meet The Creators

Educator
James Zucker
Director
John R. Dilworth
Artist
Kyra Kupetsky, Maria Ulacia
Sound Designer
William Hohauser
Script Editor
Addison Anderson
Narrator
Addison Anderson

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