TED演讲:我们的意识(3)
Now, that's the way a lot of people feel about consciousness. 好了，那就是很多人对意识的感觉。 Real consciousness is not a bag of tricks. 真正的意识不是魔术师的口袋 If you're going to explain this as a bag of tricks, 如果
TED演讲:我们的意识(4)
OK, now, you all saw what changed, right? 好，你们都看到了什么东西改变了，对吧？ How many of you noticed that every one of those squares changed color? 有多少人注意到每一个方块都变了颜色？ Every one. I'll just sho
TED演讲:我们的意识(5)
The artist had very cleverly suggested people and clothes and wagons and all sorts of things, 艺术家很聪明地暗示了人物和服装，以及车马还有其他事物， and my brain had taken the suggestion. 而我的大脑接受了这样的暗示
TED演讲:我们的意识(6)
But now, notice there are two ways of seeing the cube, right? 现在，你注意到了有两种方法来看那个立方体，对吧？ It's a Necker cube. 这是一个内科尔方块。 Everybody can see the two ways of seeing the cube? OK. 大家都可
TED演讲:我们的意识(7)
Indeed, Rensink's subjects took only a little bit more than a second to press the button. 是的，Rensink的实验对象仅仅花了一秒多一点点的时间来按下按钮。 Can you see that one? 2.9 seconds. 这个能看到吗？2.9秒。 How m
TED演讲:我们的大问题
I want to talk today about 今天我所要讲的是 I've been asked to take the long view, 他们让我谈谈长远的观点 and I'm going to tell you what I think are the three biggest problems for humanity from this long point of view. 我要告诉你
TED演讲:我们的大问题(2)
Existential risk -- the second big problem. 存在风险第二个重大问题。 Existential risk is a threat to human survival, or to the long-term potential of our species. 存在风险是对人类生存，或对整个人类种群的长远潜能的一
TED演讲:我们的大问题(3)
Now, let me spend the rest of my time on the third big problem, 现在，让我把余下的时间花在对第三个重大问题的探讨上。 because it's more subtle and perhaps difficult to grasp. 因为这个问题更加微妙，也可能难以把握
TED演讲:我们的大问题(4)
Now, when we think about changing human nature, 那么，当我们考虑改变人类本质时， the first thing that comes to mind are these human modification technologies 首先想到的便是那些人类改造技术 growth hormone therapy, cosmet
TED演讲:我们的大问题(5)
So if you think about what it means to learn arithmetic or to learn to read, 因此，如果你思考学习算术和阅读意义何在， you're actually, literally rewriting your own brain. 那实际上你就是在重写你自己的大脑。 You're
TED演讲:我们的大问题(6)
But part of the reason 但另一方面的原因 and that's the reason why we have ethical ground for pursuing these 即从人类的本质上看，它们也是很有价值的， is that they're also intrinsically valuable. 这也是为什么我们拥有
TED演讲:我们的大问题(7)
Imagine a species that just didn't have this neural machinery for processing music. 假设有这样一个物种，它们刚好没有能够处理音乐的神经装置。 And they would just stare at us with bafflement 当我们花时间聆听一曲美妙
TED演讲:我们的大问题(8)
That's probably not all that difficult. 这也许并不是太难做到的事情。 It might just be a simple hormone or something that could do this. 可能只需要一种普通激素或其它什么材料。 It's been done in voles. 人们在田鼠身上
TED演讲:我们的大问题(9)
So then, you move off to this larger sphere of human +, 那么，然后我们迈步来到这片更大的人类空间， and you could continue that process 我们不断地前进， and eventually explore a lot of this larger space of possible modes o
TED演讲:无神论2.0
One of the most common ways of dividing the world 一个把人类分成两大部分很普遍的方法 is into those who believe and those who don't--into the religious and the atheists. 便是分为相信神的存在的一部分，以及不相信宗教
