But no one disputes his great influence on the science of mental health.

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Fish don't have any of that, so no offense to fish but it's— fish don't have much of a mental life.

鱼类并没有大脑皮层,无意冒犯鱼类,只不过,鱼类并没有什么心理活动

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But there's clearly a side of our mental life, the emotional side, where we might really worry, could a robot feel love?

显然我们的某个精神方面,情绪方面,才我们最为担心的,机器人能感觉到爱吗

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But I also have a weakness for the less common mental disorders that I think tell us something really interesting about mental life.

但我对那些不太常见的心理障碍,也并不是非常了解,不过我倒认为这些不常见的心理障碍,却向我们展示了心理活动有意思的一面

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But nonetheless, in the imagination, in the imaginaire, in the mental construction of these two countries, what we are not, that is Catholic, helps define their identity.

然而,在精神层面上,在精神体系的创立上,这两个国家的身份认同感,受到他们所否定的观念,即非天主教观念的影响

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And we think the brain activation, we can use that to predict financial choice, but beyond that, we can actually use it in some symptom profiles in mental disorders.

我们认为，我们可以通过大脑活动，来预测金融决策，但不仅如此，我们还可以用它来监测精神疾病的病情。

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But what's new is we can now in different ways see the direct effects of mental life.

但最新的情况是,我们现在可以从不同的角度出发,探究心理活动所带来的直接影响

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but rather, why is this tiny subset of mental life-- " why is this conscious?

而应该是“为什么心理活动的一小部分-,为什么这一小部分是有意识的？

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If what we mean is the mental, but that the aspect, the behavioral aspect of the mental, where even a chess-playing computer probably has it, then that's not a very compelling argument.

如果我们说的是精神的某个方面,即精神的表现面,是一个甚至连象棋程序都可能拥有的方面,那这就不是一个令人信服的论点

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There's a lot of debate over how much is innate and what the character of the built-in mental systems are but there's nobody who doubts nowadays that a considerable amount for humans and for other animals is built-in.

尽管对于先天存在程度,以及内在心理系统所起的作用,还存在着很多的争论,然而如今的人们已经不再怀疑,先天因素在人类以及其他动物身上,所起到的重要作用。

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