A different response, of course, is why couldn't we have robots that just build more robots?

另一种不同的回应,为什么我们不能拥有制造机器人的机器人呢

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And the thought, of course, is that the robot or the computer is a deterministic system and you can't have free will if you're a deterministic system.

那个想法,当然,是说机器人和电脑只是一种决定论的系统,而如果你是个决定论系统的话,就不可能有自由意志

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I mean, after all from the physicalist's point of view, we're just a kind of glorified robot, able to do all sorts of things that most robots in most science fiction movies can do.

我的意思是,根据物理主义者的观点,人只是一种"高级"的机器人,能做到大多数科幻电影里,大多数机器人所能做到的事

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