Computers, the Internet, and communication devices are fundamental to financial progress and they make things possible that wouldn't have been possible before.

计算机,网络,通讯设备,是金融进步的基础,正是这些技术使得过去不可能的事情,如今变成了现实

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There are changes in food and agriculture that made a number of things possible.

食物和农业的发展,使得很多事情变得可能

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We know machines have limited capacities to engage in mathematical and logical reasoning, to recognize things, to do various forms of computations, and this makes it at least possible that we are such machines.

我们也知道机器,在数学推理与逻辑推理方面,在识别物体方面,在完成各种形式的运算方面,的确是拥有有限的能力的,这至少说明,人类就是这样的机器

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