When somebody invented the automobile, before you knew it everyone was driving automobiles and they all looked pretty much the same.

有人发明了汽车,不知不觉,每个人都开上汽车了,而且那些汽车外形看起来都差不多

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But it's amazing, that every year you find somebody coming up with a way of going around the second law and somehow convincing people who are very smart that this will work.

但是很令人惊奇，每年你都能发现,有人宣称找到了,绕过第二定律的方法,还不知怎么地就说服了,一些非常聪明的人,让他们以为这个真的管用。

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I don't know if I mentioned I assume you know about the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?

不知我有没有提到过,你们都知道,联邦存款保险公司吧

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There is punishment and before you know it, everybody is insecure in the enjoyment of his or her unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property.

就能惩罚他，不知不觉间，所有人不可剥夺的生命，自由,和财产权都没了保障。

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It's all similar in that it reminds us of the connection that we have, when we really are feeling fully present, and not mindless, and unaware of everything around us, and our place and our connection.

大同小异，都提醒我们,我们之间的联系，我们真切地感受到当下，而不是漫不经心，不觉周围事物，不知我们之所在和我们的联系。

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Even if quantum mechanics was wrong and somehow, you know, at the macro level all the indeterminism boils out-- whatever-- and at the macro level we are deterministic systems, so what?

即便量子力学是错的,而且不知怎的,在宏观水平上,所有的非决定性都蒸发了,不管发生了什么,在宏观水平上我们都成了决定论的系统,那又如何

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But now, I want to raise a huge developmental puzzle and the puzzle is there are some ways in which babies are-- not just babies,but young children are very clueless when it comes to people.

但现在我想提出一个发展心理学的难题,这个难题是,当提及与人类有关的知识时,婴儿,甚至是幼儿,在某些方面都是完全不知的

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When someone invented the airplane, before you knew it every country had an airplane because there was a best practice, there was a best technology and it was not unique to any one country.

有人发明了飞机,不知不觉,每个国家都有飞机了,因为这些最佳的设计,这些最好的技术,并不是一个国家所独有的

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