And unlike a machine, the skin-to-skin contact provides two kinds of warmth physical and emotional.

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If you have some plain text, some message that you want to send, well, you can encrypt it or you can scramble it using a key, a secret key, which might be a physical machine like the Enigma 13 or it might be a number like 13.

如果你有没有加密的文本，你想要寄送的一些消息,你就可以加密它,或者你可以用一个密钥使其变得混乱，那就像一个英格玛的物理装置,或者他就是一个数字。

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- Here, the secret is not a number 13, it's actually the build -- the diagram, the details, the gears, and the handles inside of this physical machine that constituted a secret.

这里，机密数字不是数字13，它实际上构造了-,一个图表，这个物理装置中的细节，传动装置，操纵,就构建成了一个机密。

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Perhaps the argument should be, "We have to believe in souls because no mere physical object, no machine could feel."

而应该是,我们不得不相信灵魂,因为所有物理对象,所有的机器都没有感觉

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So one of the things that the Allies very specifically wanted to do in World War II was to hijack one of these devices, take it from a U-boat because if they had this physical machine, certainly can they start decrypting then the German messages.

所以同盟国在二战中想做的一件事,就是劫持其中一个装置，携带在U型潜水艇中，因为如果他们拥有了这种物理装置，他们就可以解码,德国人的密文。

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And the suggestion then might be, no physical object, no mere machine could possibly have qualitative experience.

所以可能有人会说,没有哪个物理对象,没有任何机器能够拥有定性的体验

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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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