Because by hypothesis, the experience machine gets the mental states right, get the insides right.

因为根据假设，体验机器能让你获得良好的心理状态，获得正确的内在感知。

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The question is: The conflicts in psychosexual development always assumes that a child has a mother and a father, one of each, in a certain sort of familial structure.

他提的问题是：,弗洛伊德在描述性心理发展过程中,总是假设孩子是拥有父母的，是处于特定的家庭结构之中的。

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Far from having a sort of rational actor model of politics, he operates with an irrational actor model. He assumes that it is not reason but our passions that are the dominant force of human psychology, our desires, our aversions, our passions.

没有一个政治上理性的典范,他就着手塑造一个,不理性的典型，他假设,感情，而不是理性,是统领人类心理，欲望，厌恶和情绪的主要力量。

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So, the idea behind a lot of psychology -- particularly a lot of neuroscience and cognitive psychology -- is to treat the mind as an information processor, as an elaborate computer.

暗含在许多心理科学背后的假设,尤其是许多神经科学,和认知心理学,便是认为心理是一种信息加工机制,就像一部精密的电脑

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Suppose you hate development; you hate developmental psychology; you hate babies; you hate children; they're not cute; they're ugly; you don't want to have them; you don't want to study them; you're annoyed that we have to discuss them.

假设你讨厌发展,讨厌发展心理学,讨厌婴儿,讨厌儿童,他们不可爱,他们很丑陋,你不想有孩子,也不想去研究他们,你对我们探讨儿童觉得厌烦

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