They show what human beings can be, the capacity of the human spirit.

它们展示了人类所能及之事,人类精神所能承载之力

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I mean, after all from the physicalist's point of view, we're just a kind of glorified robot, able to do all sorts of things that most robots in most science fiction movies can do.

我的意思是,根据物理主义者的观点,人只是一种"高级"的机器人,能做到大多数科幻电影里,大多数机器人所能做到的事

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