I know you want to get on with life, and you're onto the next thing, and you are tuning out, but you hear all the click, click, click, click, click?

我知道你希望在生活上出人头地，由于弄另一件事上了，后来你又不理会了，你能全部听到嘀嘀的声音？

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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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Well, I think the gay gene is maybe a different example, because you would want to arouse the question, do we think the life with attraction to your own sex is any worse than life without it?

我觉得同性恋基因可能是个不同的例子，你可能想要引出这个问题，那就是，被同性所吸引,这是否意味着一个人的生活就要比其他人糟糕呢？

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And this is what linguists do for a living so if you hear me talking about this and say, "I want to spend the next forty years of my life studying that," you should become a linguist.

这就是语言学家们研究的问题,如果你听了我的讲解然后说,"我想用我的余生来研究这些东西",那你该去做一个语言学家

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Students, graduate students who said I want to do as you do. I want to write about love and sex, the meaning of life and film and one shot is I always say, but where you gonna get a job?

我的研究生有的说,我想和你一样写爱情和性爱，揭示生活的意义，写电影，和，镜头,我会这么回答，你去哪里找工作？

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So again, when the question is posed, ?" "Is there a kind of life that I or you would want to live forever?"

所以当问题提出时，“是否存在我或你们想永远过的生活“

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And we ask ourselves, ? would you want to live a life on the experience machine?

我们给自己提出了一个问题，你想在体验机里生活吗？

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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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.. It's one thing to have-- it's not to say that the best-- if you want your life to be like the plot of a great story, it's not as though you think, " "All right, the denouement must occur at the very last page."

如果你拥有-,不是说最美好的生活-,如果你想让生活像美好的故事情节，它并不像你所想的，“好的，结局一定是在最后一页“

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My advice for our young philosopher, or for any young students is to think about the kind of life you want to live and how it can advance the values that are most important to you.

我建议这些年轻的哲学家们，也建议所有的大学生,来思考一下你真正希望的生活,想一想这种生活将如何深化,对你来说最重要的价值观。

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