Their muscles become stiff. They might bump into things or fall over objects.

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It may not clearly think about things, about objects, but it has a kind of legitimate basis that generates the sort of thinking that it does.

意识可能并不能清晰地思考事物，却有正当的依据,产生出它的思想。

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And so probably does each animal feel about the particular things it tends to do in the presence of certain objects.

所以，可能每种动物,倾向于做特定的事情,在某物面前。

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We use it differently now. But the fact is that the common or profane state is the natural default state of most objects and things. This table is just profane. It's common.

现在它的用法不同了，事实上,“普通“或者“世俗“的状态都是,大部分事物的自然状态，这张桌子是世俗的，它很普通。

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Some physical objects can do things of a far more interesting sort than other physical objects.

某些物理对象,可做的事远远比,其他物理对象能做的事有趣得多

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You can anchor things to objects in outer space.

你能将一些东西固定在外太空中的物体上

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Descartes, when he was alive, was reasonable enough concluding that physical objects cannot do certain things.

笛卡尔生前非常理性地总结到,生理客体并不具备完成某些动作的能力

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The person is a body that can do things that most other material objects can't do.

人这个肉体可以做,很多其他物质实体不能做的事

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And it's actually critically important to get used to things because it's a useful adaptive mechanism to keep track on new events and objects.

而习惯化实际上也是至关重要的,因为这是一种非常有用的适应机制,可以让你注意到新鲜事物。

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People are just material objects, the sorts of things biologists poke and prod and study.

人只是个物质实体,一个生物学可以钻研的东西

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Just think of them as the set of abilities that people have, the things that we can do that other physical objects-- chalk, radios, cars-- those things can't do.

只是把它们视为人具备的能力,作为人有别于粉笔,收音机,汽车等其他物体的能力

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We know physical objects can do complicated and interesting things.

我们知道生理客体,是能够完成复杂且有趣的活动的

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And the reason for positing these things is because we're clearly able to think about these ideas, and yet, we recognize that the ordinary physical world-- although things may participate in them to varying degrees-- we don't actually come across these objects or entities in the physical world.

我们假定这些的原因是,这样我们就能够清楚的,去思考这些理念,目前我们认识到在正常的现实世界中,尽管很多东西或多或少的参与其中,我们并不会在现实世界中,直接面对这些对象或者个体

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