And Descartes said, "Boy, these machines respond in certain ways to certain actions so machines can do certain things," and in fact, he says, "Our bodies work that way too.

因此笛卡尔说,"天呐,这些机器可以对特定的动作,做出特定的反应,原来机器也是可以完成某些动作的",实际上,他说道,"我们的身体也是这样运作的

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It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

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