Suppose we don't know what economic circumstances we'd be born into and what kind of contingencies we'd have in life.

假设我们不知道,将会在怎样的经济环境中生存,而生命中又会有怎样的意外发生。

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So, some sort of ability to record information and make generalizations is absolutely essential to making it through life.

所以记录信息的能力,和归纳的能力是非常重要的,是我们生存的关键。

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In fact, if you start thinking more about the world from this perspective, the world we live in is crazy.

如果你开始更多的,从这个观点去思考这个世界,我们生存的世界是很疯狂的

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It usually follows from this that somebody like this points out that whereas we all know that a democratic society is the best society to live in, poetry prefers feudal society: it makes better poetry.

赞成这种观点的人指出,虽然我们都知道,民主社会是最适合生存的，诗歌却更喜欢封建社会：,因为封建社会更适合诗歌创作。

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And yet we know that evil is a condition of human existence.

但我们知道，邪恶是人类生存的一种状况。

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Salvation is available,and with it immortality, but it comes from God and it doesn't come in the world in which we live, but in some other world to be achieved in the future.

人可以被救赎而不朽,但只能依靠上帝,这在我们生存的世界里是不能实现的,但也许在将来某个世界中能够实现

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in spite of the fact that we take a variety of chemicals into our bodies in different ways and we have to do that to stay alive, but we have mechanisms to control this very well.

尽管事实是我们从不同途径,摄入各种化学物质以维持生存,但我们能够很好地控制它们在体内的总量

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But now that we're here,we're in a position perhaps to raise the question, should we be asking what it takes to survive?

现在我们必须想要提出的问题应该是，要怎样才能生存？

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And it turns out that collecting information about categories is essential to our survival.

我们发现收集类别的信息,以我们的生存至关重要。

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We'll turn eventually to the question, how should we live in light of the fact that death is the end?

我们将最终将要探讨，在知道死亡就是终结的情况下我们该如何生存？

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So as it were,we might say, it might be that mere survival or bare bones survival doesn't really give me what matters.

所以我们可以说，仅仅生存下去,肉体的存活并不是我需要的。

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Now,in posing this question,I'm obviously presupposing that we can draw a distinction between the question,Do I survive?

提出这个问题的时候我显然已经假设,我们能够分清，我是否生存？

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Change often signals danger or opportunity and if we are especially tuned-in to change, it helps us survive ? and it helps us pass along our genes. Okay?

变化通常意味着危险和机遇,如果我们能调整适应变化，我们生存能力更强,并且能传递我们的基因，是不是？

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The question of survival can be asked about that very simple case.

对于这个非常简单的场景,我们可以问生存的问题。

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Would that then give us not just personal survival,but what matters?

那能带给我们不仅是个人的生存，还有我们在意的东西吗？

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