They may be hooked up to intravenous lines or may be using catheters which increase the risk of infection.

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What's really going on is you're floating in the psychologist's tank in their lab with the electrodes hooked up your brain.

真实的情景是你飘浮在,实验室里的心理学研究容器里,电极连接着你的脑袋。

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But when I think about the question, would I want to spend my life ? hooked up to an experience machine?

但当我想到这个问题，我是否愿意让一生,在体验机器上度过时？

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Now, ask yourself then, would you want to spend your life ? hooked up to the experience machine?

现在问问你们自己，你们愿意,一辈子连接在体验机器上吗？

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Ask yourself, how would you feel if you discovered now that you have been living your life ? hooked up to an experience machine?

问问你自己，你会有何感受,如果你发现此时此刻,你的人生,一直都是在体验机器上度过？

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Just imagine that everybody's hooked up to experience machines, but everybody's got the best possible tapes.

相象每个人都连接在体验机器上，而且每个人都有最美好的录像带。

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Now you ask yourself, what I'm asking you to ask yourself, is would you want to spend your life ? hooked up to the experience machine?

我要你们问自己的是，你愿意像那样,被连接在体验机器上度过一生吗？

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And I imagine that for most of you, when you ask yourself, would you want your entire life ? to be spent hooked up to the experience machine?

我想你们中多数人，当你们自问，是否愿意,在体验机器上度过一生？

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Hooked up to the machine, you believe you are climbing Mount Everest.

被连接在机器上后，你相信,自己正在攀登珠穆朗玛峰。

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So that when you are hooked up to the machine, it seems to you exactly the same on the inside as it would seem to you if you really were-- and now fill in the blank.

当你被连接到机器上时，你的内心感受,看似就是你真正的体验-,哪一种体验都可以。

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