It may not clearly think about things, about objects, but it has a kind of legitimate basis that generates the sort of thinking that it does.

意识可能并不能清晰地思考事物，却有正当的依据,产生出它的思想。

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We're going to focus on the simple, salient things could be an instrument, could be an important rhythm.

我们得集中在简单,显著的事物上,有可能是件乐器,有可能是重要的节奏

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It refers to that period that Plato says in the letter looked like "a golden age, " when many things seemed possible."

也就是柏拉图在书信中所指,“事物充满无限可能的，黄金时期“

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The sort of thing that perhaps we might call or think of as abstract objects or abstract properties.

这类事物,我们可能需要称作或认为是抽象的现实,或抽象的性质

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I look at something and I know what it is, forgetting that possibly I only know what it is because of a context in which indeed it is not those other things that are linked to it.

而我认知一样东西，很可能并不知道它的本质是什么,而是以它和其他事物的,关系来认知它。

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Not necessarily math, but all sorts of things.

不一定是数学,也可能是各种各样的事物

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When you look at a random walk you have the intuitive impression that you can extrapolate it -that it doesn't look like -you can't believe it's really random, but the reason you can't is because you overweigh the probability of certain things that caught your attention.

当人们观察随机漫步序列时会有直观印象,并可以以此类推,虽然这看起来并不像...,人们不会觉得这是完全随机的,之所以如此,是因为,人们过分高估了特定事物发生的可能性,这吸引了人们的注意

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But we shouldn't confuse the physical things which can be just, the people who can be virtuous to one degree or another, with perfect virtue or perfect justice.

但是我们不应该把可能正义的现实事物,比如,多少有些,德行的人,同完美的德性或完美的正义相混淆

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What is it about the fact that we don't have something that we used to that makes it worse than ? not having something that we're going to?

要怎么看待,我失去了曾经拥有的事物,要比无法拥有,我们可能拥有的事物更糟糕？

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How can individuals who are biologically autonomous, who judge and see matters very differently from one another, who can never be sure whether they trust one another, ? how can such individuals accept a common authority?

在生理上独立的个人，可以从不同角度,判断和看待事物的个人，永远不可能知道他们是否能互相信任的个人，这些个体如何才能接受一个相同的权力制约呢？

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It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

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So maybe if we want to say machines don't have a mental life and couldn't have a mental life, what we really mean is no machine could feel anything emotionally.

所以如果我们说机器,没有也不可能有精神生活,我们真正的意思是,机器不能对事物产生情绪

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I just want--one point of this lecture is to try to emphasize the real breadth of the concepts of finance and how important they are-- how they reach out into other things that you might not think as associated with finance.

我想要。。。这节课的一个重点是,要强调金融的广义概念,以及它的重要性-,它们如何影响其他事物,你可能认为它们根本跟金融没有联系。

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