If I can just have it there before me, that is a very difficult and derivative intellectual act, and it cannot be understood as primordial or primitive.

仅是面对着它，对于思维来说非常困难，并且这不能被理解为是原始的。

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many of you are showing irregular beta waves suggesting intense comprehension and great intellectual focus.

现在你们很多都是不规则的β波,表明理解力很高,思维很集中。

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I ought to say a word about death, in order to comprehend what the Greeks thought. You know, different peoples have had different ideas about them.

我得说一下有关死亡的事儿,好让你们更容易理解希腊人的思维,你们知道,不同人对于死亡的观念是不同的

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Economics and Game Theory are now essential tools for understanding human thought and human behavior— those issues connecting to philosophy, computer science, anthropology, literature, theology, and many, many other domains.

经济学和博弈论如今已经成为了,理解人类思维和人类行为的重要方法,这些问题涉及哲学,计算机科学,人类学,文学,神学,以及许多其他的科学领域

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