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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And it's hard to imagine a simpler program than this. So we very quickly realize that exhaustive testing is just never feasible for an interesting program.

更简单的程序了,因此我们很快的意识到,对一个程序来说详尽的,测试是永远不可行的。

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What we've just done, after all, is imagine that my mind exists but my body does not.

我们刚才所作的,就是想象我的心灵存在,而身体不存在

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Just imagine a philologist being confronted with the idea that the meaning of words at a certain historical moment isn't the only thing that matters in understanding the meaning of a poem.

想象一下，一个语言学家看到一个理论指出,一个字在特定历史阶段的语义,不是影响诗歌意思理解的,唯一因素。

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Now, this is what you're going to do in the homework assignment, but I'm just going to make the argument that you could also imagine firms sitting somewhere between 0 and 1.

这是你们需要在家庭作业上完成的内容,值得一提的是,你们也可以想象公司在0和1间任何地方

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And just to look ahead a little bit, you could easily imagine that I might want to not just put a statement in there, what the specs are, I might want to put some constraints. Some specific things to check for, to make sure that you're calling the code right.

这不仅是抽象的概念还有规范的概念，我们再往前看看,你可以简单的想象得到，我不仅仅是想在这里加一个声明,这些规范说明中我还想加一些约束，我们要注意一些特殊的事情。

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When I do my best to imagine some kind of existence that would be desirable or attractive forever, it just doesn't work. It becomes a nightmare.

当我尽力想象一种,令人永远期望迷恋的存在时，根本想象不出，总是变成恶梦。

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And it's of course possible to say, well, just imagine a friend that you would want to talk through all eternity to. But the whole point is, I can't imagine what that would be like.

当然可以说，想象一个你想与之,永远长谈的朋友，但问题是，我无法想象那种情景。

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Imagine--this didn't, of course, actually happen, but imagine--the crucial point here is simply that we can imagine this story happening, not even that we think it's empirically possible, just it's conceivable, it's an imaginable story.

想象,当然,实际上并没发生,最关键的地方就是想象,故事因此而产生,别去想实际上是否可能发生,只需要一点想象,这是个虚构的故事

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should we conclude therefore, given that we've got the premise, "If you can't picture it or imagine it, then you can't believe in it," since I've just said, look, you can't imagine being dead, but that's not due to any failure of imagination, that's because there's nothing there to imagine or picture.

于是我们就应该基于这个前提，想象不了的东西就不能相信，得出结论吗“,我刚才已经说过，人不能想象自己的死亡，不是因为想象的失败，而是本来就没有东西可以想象。

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Just because it looks as though we can imagine it and just because it seems as though from the fact that we can imagine one without the other, it just won't necessarily follow that we really do have two things that are separate and not identical in the real world.

仅仅是因为我们似乎能够,想象到一个事物独立于,另一个事物存在这件事,并不能说明,在现实世界里,有这样两个,相互独立,而且不相同的事物

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