This is really a general idea in psychology that we are in a way wired up to be more sensitive to change than to steady states.

这是心理学上一个普遍的观点,某种意义上,比起稳定状态，我们对变化更敏感。

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I am built, I am hard wired, to be attuned to your pain.

人有一种天生的能力，我能对你的痛苦感同身受。

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And so you've got this tension between what might be evolutionarily wired impulses and the kind of social constraints that say this isn't good, this isn't appropriate, this is taboo.

因此，两者之间有冲突,一方面，从进化论角度来看，你有这样的冲动,但是从社会建构的立场看,这不合适，是社会禁忌。

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Well, again, it used to be believed that the brain is wired up like a computer, like a PC or a Mac or something like that, but we know this can't be true.

人们曾经以为大脑是像计算机那样,组装起来的,像台个人电脑或苹果电脑,但我们知道这种观点是不对的

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