I just want to flag the thought that you can be the very same hunk of stuff, even if some of the constituent atoms have changed along the way.

我只是要树立这样一个观点,就算在过程中，改变了一些原子,还能是同一件物品。

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Even if we could build a program, even if we had built programs that can be creative, that can do things that nobody's thought of before, all the program is doing is following its program, right?

即使我们能编写一个程序,即使我们已经编写出具有创造力的程序,它们可以做一些从来没有人想到过的事情,程序所做的只不过是执行程序,对吗

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But Ian Hacking, being a good historian, thought that someone must have had some concept of probability going before even if they didn't quote it as a number the way-- it must have been in their head or in their idea.

但是这位优秀的历史学家伊恩·哈金认为,一定有人在更早时候就用过概率这个概念,即便他们没有用数字来表述,但他们一定有过类似的想法

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In any event, this is some interesting research opportunity, so again, no obligation, you don't have to do this, I won't even know if you are or not, but I just thought I would present these in the case you might find them interesting things to do.

不管怎样,这都是些不错的研究机会,不过不是强制的,我甚至都不知道你们参加与否,不过我还是会把这些放在这里,这样大家可能会找到一些有趣的事情去做

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But he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.

但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西

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And the thought, and I think this is a pretty powerful thought, is that even if the robots are behaving behaviorally, they've got the behavior side of the emotions down, they don't have the feeling side at all.

这样一个在我看来极具影响的想法,就是,即便机器人表现出行为层面,即使它们已经获得情绪的行为面,但是它们并没有感受面

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