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.
Descartes believes that we can achieve truth by using our rational abilities. But are rational tools limited by our own perceptions?
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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
