Life will become meaningful as a function of your pursuit rather than you're expecting some objective validation because the world is what the traditional, particularlly traditional religions view said it was. Go ahead.

你的生活会因为有所追求而变得有意义,而不是去期待一些客观实在的好处,因为世界就如传统宗教,所定义和限定的那样,你继续说吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

And so, the behaviorist manifesto would then be to develop a science without anything that's unobservable and instead use notions like stimulus and response and reinforcement and punishment and environment that refer to real world and tangible events.

因此，行为主义者的目标,是建立一门科学,将一切不可观测的事情都排除在外,取而代之的是应用,诸如刺激，反应，强化，惩罚,以及表示现实世界和客观事件的环境,之类的概念来进行研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There are so many ways in which that has changed the world, but I can't do justice to it but Hanson does, so if you want to read, fields Without Dreams, you can ponder the significance of this great change.

有太多改变这个世界的因素了,我很难全部都客观地讲出来,但是汉森可以,你可以在《遗梦之野》中有所了解,你可以仔细琢磨这些伟大的变革

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

By "Present," We mean-- we will pick some part of the universe we want to study and we will ask, "What information do I need to know for that system at the initial time, like, right now, in order to be able to predict the future?"

我们所说的"现在",意思是,我们会选取客观世界某一部分来进行研究,然后我们就会问,我们需要什么信息去了解,初始时刻的系统,比如现在,进而能使我们能够预测未来呢

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