How does all this work? Brooks believes that he can understand it, as we'll try to explain, in psychoanalytic terms.

这些都是怎么实现的呢？，布鲁克斯确信自己可以，从精神分析的角度理解这些问题，我们马上要解释。

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We posit--or the fans of souls posit-- the existence of souls so as to explain something that needs explaining about us.

我们 或者灵魂论的拥护者们假设,灵魂是存在的,这就能解释一些我们自身不解的东西

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I also explain new kind of literacy, this new emerging literacy, what we recognize as new literacy, civic literacy, which also is referred to as political literacy.

我也想介绍一下，这种新文化素养，新兴的文化素养，我们称之为“民主文化素养“,也被称为政治文化素养。

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We're actually going to do one more clicker question to get started with today, and as we do, I'll explain something we're going to be trying today, which is a little bit of a friendly competition in terms of answering the clicker questions correctly.

我们将在开始讲授今天的课程之前,再多做一个选择题，我先来说明一下做这件事的原因，这实际上是一个,回答选择题的小比赛。

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What could possibly explain why either hemisphere of the brain would normally be enough, as long as we don't transfer both?

什么能够解释为何任何大脑半球,都足够适用，却不能同时，分别移植？

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Sometimes, we posit the existence of something that we can't see so as to explain something else that we all agree takes place.

有时,我们通过假设,存在某些,我们看不到的事物以解释另一些,我们一致认同存在着的事物

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We can use the Coulomb force law to explain this where we can describe the force as a function of r.

我们用库伦定律解释它,力作为距离r的函数,让我们考虑一下。

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The physicalist says we don't need to appeal to anything as extravagant as a soul in order to explain the fact that bodies don't just move randomly, but they move in purposeful ways that are controlled.

物理主义认为,我们并不需要诉诸任何,像灵魂那样夸张的东西来解释,为什么肉体不会随机乱动,而是在控制下进行的有目的的活动

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And what the physicalist would need to do for each one of those-- For each one of those you can imagine a dualist who says, "We need to believe in a soul so as to explain seances.

对于这些东西,物理主义者该怎么做,对于这些,你可以想到二元论者会说,我们需要相信有灵魂才能解释通灵

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