The video is one dated view of awareness function and illusion. Bruce Lipton's cutting edge work on cells, information and DNA is more up date and interesting.
Robots, I wonder what he means by robots, considering:
CBC News In Depth: Robotics - definition.
I had an identical experience, only this time it demonstrated that conditioning and belief will also totally deny simple fact, explaining it as illusion when it chooses to. Around 30 years ago I attended the first Alpha Dynamic seminar in Adelaide, run by Andrew Matthews. It horrified the general public, experts, scholars and authorities who branded it as a dangerous fraud...tricksters and charlotans decieving poor, unwitting fools. The papers printed dramatic hyped up front page warnings. I had frantic family and friends warning me, even citing hypnosis, cults, drugging and brain washing, as per the newspapers.
Alpha Dynamic gave an introductory night involving a memory demonstration. 20 random members in the audience wrote down a way out thing each and told Matthews, who later accurately recalled all of them, any of them, in any exact requested order. Continually throught the night. This is common now, the use of 'memory pegs', but was fairly unknown back then. So in their clamour to disrepute Matthews, people unwittingly made it easier for him to recall. The more 'way out' the thing they wanted remembered, the easier it was. Most of the people were there to debunk, and many claimed to know exactly how the 'trick', the 'illusion', was done. Newspaper reports gave detailed descriptions and demonstrations of how such 'frauds' were set up. I even began really doubting the whole thing. But, I like to experience for myself, and trust my self, despite what the 'authorities' assert. More to life than meets the eye...but that's a humungous topic...water...cells full of water...one of the most reactive substances known...enough digressing.
It proved to be hilarious, absolutely, utterly hilarious. The memory thing is completely above board, anyone can do it with impressive results, quite easily. Everyone at the course did, even two 'plants', a reporter and psychiatrist. Yet the masses of doubters still insisted it was a magician's trick, a con. Both plants admitted their roles towards the end or the course, having both experienced much more amasing things also. Do you reckon the newspapers reported that? And how the memory thing actually happened? That their whole premise was wrong...no illusion exsisted. No. The masses already had what they wanted.
Andrew Matthews was portrayed as a con man, crook, and so on. I got to know him very well over several years. He was an open book. One of the most honest, persistant, brave people I have ever met. Pure of intention, character and heart, yet was libelled and portrayed as many things. Didn't sway him though. Impressive.
This is just me, but I question the reasoning power of people, even professors, who become challenged and exhausted merely shuffling and breathing, so considering brain cells use the same supply systems as the rest of the physical organs, wonder how well the the things can work under those circumstances. But thats just my conditioning and beliefs.
By the way, did he manage to round up the funds he was after?