Descartes, when he was alive, was reasonable enough concluding that physical objects cannot do certain things.

笛卡尔生前非常理性地总结到,生理客体并不具备完成某些动作的能力

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But when it was all said and done he wasn't blind, he wasn't deaf, didn't lose language, didn't become aphasic, no paralysis, no retardation.

手术完成,他没有失明，没有失聪，没有失去语言能力，没有患失语症，没有麻痹，没有反应迟钝。

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We know machines have limited capacities to engage in mathematical and logical reasoning, to recognize things, to do various forms of computations, and this makes it at least possible that we are such machines.

我们也知道机器,在数学推理与逻辑推理方面,在识别物体方面,在完成各种形式的运算方面,的确是拥有有限的能力的,这至少说明,人类就是这样的机器

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