"The brain-machine interface is a system that allows disabled people, people suffering from physical disabilities to communicate with external world and also to control devices."

VOA: special.2011.04.04

There is no machine yet that can do just about anything people can do in an interesting way.

还没有任何机器,能够像人类一样的去运行

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This was a failure because people could not go near the tickle machine without convulsing in laughter.

这是一个失败的发明,因为人们还没靠近挠痒痒的机器,就已经被它的模样逗笑了

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And there's always a group of people who think, yes, life on the experience machine is perfect as long as you've got the right tape playing.

而且总是会有一些人认为，没错，体验机器里的生活十全十美,只要你放对了带子。

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And so it doesn't seem plausible to suggest that we people must not be physical, merely physical, because after all, we can reason and no machine can reason.

所以,人不是物理对象,这一观点似乎并不能站稳脚跟,因为毕竟,我们人能推理而机器不能

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We are, as I said, early in the semester when I said I'm a physicalist, I believe that people are just machines, but we're not just any old machine.

我们是，就像我之前说我是物理主义者时，我相信人只是机器，但我们不是旧机器。

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