Her aim is to get along in a world that is dominated by shifting forces that can be registered and reacted to by poetry, but not explained.

她的目的是通过诗歌所能记录，达到却不能解释的,变幻莫测的力量,来和被统治的世界相处。

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These are natural facts about the universe, but the naturalness needs to be explained and not merely assumed.

这些是宇宙自然现象，但自然现象需要被解释,而不仅仅是假定。

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But not yet seeing how to explain it is not the same thing as seeing that it can't be explained on physicalist terms.

但是不知道,怎么解释并不等于,不能用物理主义解释

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So you recognize patterns and then develop a model, and most desirably a quantitative model A quantitative model that explains the observations, obviously.But what Mendeleev did was he came up with a model that not only explained what we observed.

所以你们得到这些模式，发展成一个模型，和最令人向往的定量模型,一个定量模型明显地解释所有的观察结果，但是门捷列夫做的是,他提出的模型不仅解释了,我们观察到的东西。

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Presumably, these are activities that are all engaged in risk taking behavior of one kind or another that seem not to be able to be explained by Hobbes' law of nature alone.

大体来说，这些活动都,与冒险的行为有关,而这些行为并不能仅仅为,霍布斯的自然法所解释。

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these things are explained in terms of cognitive systems that we're not aware of.

我们无法觉察到的认知系统,予以解释。

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I think the simple fact of the matter is we don't know enough about consciousness yet to know whether or not it can be explained in physical terms.

一个简单的事实就是,我们对于意识了解甚少,还不知道是否能使用物理的方式对其进行解释

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