Blogs: Movie: "What The BLEEP Do We Know!?" Updated

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 04:53 PM

Without placing judgement on the merits or issues that this film invokes, we present the film's synopsis. Combined with a host of links that will hopefully help broaden and focus the topics and concepts that this film is tackling. The power of the mind is enormous and to quote Margaret Mead (1935), "If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place."

Quote from the ' what the bleep do we know ' website:
"What Happens When You Combine Today's Cutting Edge Scientists & Mystics? Can Science And Religion Really Be On The Same Path? On The Same Planet? In The Same Movie!? This film plunges you into a world where quantum uncertainty is demonstrated - where neurological processes, and perceptual shifts are engaged and lived by its protagonist - where everything is alive, and reality is changed by every thought." Internet Movie Database [IMDB].

UPDATE: December 27, 2004

What The BLEEP Do We Know!?
If you have or haven't seen this film . . . The film's (original) online forum/discussion was recommended reading [and has been taken down], to get varied points of view on the film, its themes and scientific inquiry. Here's the IMDb Message Board, user discussion threads and IMDb Comments by users.

Articles and reviews about the film: (all worth a read)
• What the #$*! is Ramtha?. ... inspired by a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit from Atlantis. 12/22/04.
• What the Bleep Do They Know?. Film's "experts" boast intriguing résumés. 12/22/04.
• Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews. Accredited media outlets and online film societies.
• Weird Science? Phoenix New Times, 6/10/04.
• Bleeped. Reviewed by firepile.com/robin, 4/17/04.
• What the #$*! Do We Know?! Geek Roar, 3/19/04.
• Whatthebleep.com. Reviews posted on the official website.

For those going down the Rabbit Hole, here are some articles of interest:
• The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene. String Theory and Beyond.
• Mirror Neurons. May have enhanced humans' evolutionary process and survival success.
• Looking at the Bright Side of Life. Advanced Psych. University of Michigan, Pennsylvania & Utah.
• Free Culture. Book by Stanford University Law professor, Lawrence Lessig.
• Free & Open Source Education, article on the movement to open tech and its applications.
• Quantum Mechanics Update. Shahriar S. Afshar, visiting scientist - Harvard's Physics Dept.
• Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Physics Dept. University of Washington.
• Information Can Not Be Owned. Harvard Law 6/3/04 [more].

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Quotes from the ' what the bleep do we know down the rabbit hole ' website:
"The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality... '"What the #$*! Do We Know?" says that science and spirituality are not different modes of thought, but are in fact describing the same thing..."

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