So it's easy to see why we might be tempted to say no mere machine could think or reason or have beliefs or desires.

所以很容易明白,为什么机器无法做到,我们刚才讨论的那些特质

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That will follow once we assume that no physical object has beliefs or desires.

这是我们假定,物理对象没有信念或欲望的必然结果

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But what reason is there for saying it has no beliefs or desires?

但我们这么说的理由何在

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No traces of desires and memories and intentions and beliefs to eventually be recovered if only we have the right surgery,or procedure,or psychotherapy, or what have you.It's gone.

没有一丝的欲望，记忆，意愿和信念能被追回,无论什么样的手术，程序或者精神疗法，都无可挽回。

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No mere machine has desires.

没有一个机器拥有欲望

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