So, one question is, "What would cause me to perceive somebody as intelligent or stupid, gay or straight, anxious or level-headed?"

第一个问题是，是什么原由让我认为别人是,聪明的，愚蠢的，同性恋的，异性恋的，紧张的，还是冷静的？”

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If we torture this one-- of course to torture,you cause pain to bodies, but the pain gets felt in the mind.

如果我们折磨这个-,当然了，折磨会在肉体上产生痛苦，而痛苦可以被意识感知。

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And if you had a motor here that was causing a paddle to move up and down you could cause waves to form at one end of the tank and move from left to right.

如果在水槽里放个发动器,来让水上下起伏,波浪形成于,水槽的一端,然后从左向右扩散。

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So we're not having you sign the release forms Two things, one thing is personally, I have to remind myself not to use profanity 'Cause children maybe watching.

所以没有让各位签署授权协议,两点需要说明,第一,就我而言,我会尽量注意自己的言辞,因为可能会有孩子观看

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Why would anyone ever risk one's life for ? one's country or a cause just to help other people, people that we don't know and probably will never know?

为什么人人都要为自己的国家或者,去救人的缘由而冒险，并且这个人我们不认识,可能永远也不会认识？

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On the one hand, it could be that certain facts, if you knew them, would cause you to behave differently without actually giving you any reason to behave differently.

一方面，可能有某些事实，如果你知道了它们，会导致你的行为不同,但并没有真正地给你改变行为的理由。

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So, why should a non-frightening incongruity cause people to make a distinctive loud noise consisted of staccato segments of one fifteenth of a second each separated by a fifth of a second?

为什么不引起恐惧的不一致性,会让人们发出一种与别不同的声音,而且这种声音是间断的，一节声音持续15分之一秒,两节声音之间也是相隔15分之一秒？

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