“So I began to think more
and more about The Individual,
and I looked into
what that actually meant.
And what it was,
was a structure that was
pretty much created…
The Ego-Structure was created
out of what Julian Jaynes calls
the “bicameral mind”
becoming ONE mind.
And apparently – according to him –
And apparently – according to him –
he says that back in the old days
of the Greeks,
and the earliest writing of the world,
people didn’t have self-consciousness
in the way that we have.
They didn’t have egos.
They didn’t understand themselves
as “I” in the same way that we do.
Because the corpus callosum –
that connects the two hemispheres
of the brain
– WASN’T CONNECTED.
So if you heard A Voice,
that voice was God.
And Homer, and all those guys,
you’ve got plenty of examples
of people hearing
the voice of God,
and acting on that.
Alexander constantly acted
on the voice of God.
Julian Jaynes suggests that
it wasn’t the voice of God –
it was the voice of the left hemisphere of the brain communicating with the right hemisphere of the brain,
interpreted AS a god.
So okay: now we’ve got the two things joined together.
We’ve got this beautiful bridge in the middle that links the two.
But we have the ego structure – which was created when those things linked.”
But we have the ego structure – which was created when those things linked.”
The Observer :
Bad enough I have to give Dick-and-Jane explanations to The President.
I've gotta give you one too. All right.
One end of this string represents Your Birth.
The other end, Your Death.
You tie the ends together,
and your life is a loop.
Ball The Loop...
and the days of your life
touch each other
out of sequence.
Therefore, leaping from one point
of the string to another...
Would move you backward or forward
within your own lifetime.
Which is Our Project :
Quantum Leap!
Future Boy :
Moe?
Sorry. I... I... I knocked.
I guess you didn't hear me.
Captain Galaxy :
I was in The Basement.
It's underneath The House.
Future Boy :
....Yeah.
Captain Galaxy :
Did Irene send you,
or is she lurking somewhere outside?
Future Boy :
No, no, no, I came alone.
She's worried about you, though.
She told me about the hearing tomorrow.
I guess this is the summons.
Captain Galaxy :
You know, a lot of people thought
Einstein was crazy,
but they didn't try to lock him up.
Future Boy :
Listen, Moe, I KNOW You're Not Crazy,
but why don't you just meet with this Dr. Sandler guy so he knows it, too?
Captain Galaxy :
I don't need to meet a Doctor.
All I need is another 24 hours.
Future Boy :
Why do you keep saying that?
Don't you understand
I'm here to help you?
Sooner or later you're gonna
have to face this thing.
Time is NOT going to stand still.
Captain Galaxy :
I want to show you something.
When I was young, my, uh,
passion was trains.
I couldn't get enough of them.
I even memorized their timetables.
Future Boy :
I did the same thing.
Captain Galaxy :
And whenever anything would go bad,
I would just imagine that
I could just jump on A Train
and go anywhere I wanted to,
to any time I wanted to.
But now I've got something
better than A Train.
I've got a Time-o-nometer.
Future Boy :
What is it?
Captain Galaxy :
It's A Time Machine.
The Observer :
You sure it doesn't make cappuccino?
Captain Galaxy :
When I first started
playing Captain Galaxy,
I became fascinated with
the thought of actually
being able to travel in time,
and I began to read
everything I could about it.
Heisenberg's Theory of Indeterminacy,
Planck's Hypothesis of Discreet Units,
Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
Future Boy :
Yeah, but when you say "Time Machine",
you mean a time machine like,
like on Your Show, right?
Captain Galaxy :
The Show? The Show?
No, no, no.
That's Fantasy. This is REAL.
Look -- Time is like A Piece of String.
One End of The String is Birth,
The Other is Death.
You put them together,
and Your LIFE, is A LOOP.
The Observer :
Sam, that's YOUR Theory (!!!!)
Captain Galaxy :
If I can travel fast enough
ALONG The Loop,
I will eventually end up back
at The Beginning of MY Life.
The Observer :
He's ALMOST got it..!!
Future Boy :
Uh, well, let me ask you,
What Would Happen,
if, uh, you would
BALL The String,
right, and then
Each Day of Your Life
would touch
ANOTHER Day.
And then you could travel
from one place on The String
to another, thus enabling
you to move back and forth
within Your Own Lifetime, maybe.
Captain Galaxy :
That's it. That's it.
Then I could actually...
Future Boy :
Quantum Leap?
Captain Galaxy :
Quantum Leap.
I Like that.
I Like that a lot.
Captain Galaxy :
Well, I see that we're
just about out of time.
But before we sign off today,
I'd like to make an announcement.
Captain Galaxy
is going away
for a while.
He's going back to see
if he can find something
he lost a long time ago.
But before we sign off,
we have time for one last letter.
The Observer :
How come you're not out there?
Future Boy :
Oh, I figured that he deserved
to answer the last letter by himself.
I guess I was here to
get them together, huh?
The Observer :
Yeah, well, Ziggy had
a sloppy floppy on this one.
But it all worked out, right, didn't it?
Future Boy :
What Happens to him?
The Observer :
Well, he goes to live with Irene
and spends the rest of his life
entertaining the kids in the neighborhood
with Tales of The Future.
Captain Galaxy :
Today's letter is from
little Sam Beckett
in Elk Ridge, Indiana.
Sam writes:
"Dear Captain Galaxy,
Could you please explain Your Theory of Time Travel to Us?"
Well, Sam, our lifetimes
are like A Piece of String.
But if you roll the string up into A Ball,
ALL The Days of Your Life...
