That's not the question. The question is, does life on the experience machine ? give you everything worth having in life?

那不是我的问题，我的问题是，体验机器上的人生,能给你生命中值得拥有的一切吗？

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And indeed, the question, strictly speaking, isn't even would life on the experience machine ? be better than it is now?

严格地说，我的问题，甚至不是说体验机器上的人生,难道不会比现在的更好吗？

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But when I think about the question, would I want to spend my life ? hooked up to an experience machine?

但当我想到这个问题，我是否愿意让一生,在体验机器上度过时？

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If life on the experience machine is not everything, then there's more to the best possible life than getting the insides right.

如果体验机器上的人生并非一切，那么获得最好人生需要的,就不止是内在的正确。

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Now, ask yourself then, would you want to spend your life ? hooked up to the experience machine?

现在问问你们自己，你们愿意,一辈子连接在体验机器上吗？

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Life on the experience machine is perfect, as long as you've got the right tape plugged in.

体验机器上的人生是完美的，只要插入正确的录像带。

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Would you be happy or would you be unhappy, to discover that you actually have been living ? a life on the experience machine?

你会开心还是不开心，如果你发现实际上,你一直都是在体验机器里生活？

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And we ask ourselves, ? would you want to live a life on the experience machine?

我们给自己提出了一个问题，你想在体验机里生活吗？

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Ask yourself, how would you feel if you discovered now that you have been living your life ? hooked up to an experience machine?

问问你自己，你会有何感受,如果你发现此时此刻,你的人生,一直都是在体验机器上度过？

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Most of us, when we think about this, find ourselves wanting to say, no, we wouldn't want to have a life on the experience machine.

想到这个问题时，我们中大多数人，都会想说，不，我不想在体验机里生活。

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And there's always a group of people who think, yes, life on the experience machine is perfect as long as you've got the right tape playing.

而且总是会有一些人认为，没错，体验机器里的生活十全十美,只要你放对了带子。

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Now you ask yourself, what I'm asking you to ask yourself, is would you want to spend your life ? hooked up to the experience machine?

我要你们问自己的是，你愿意像那样,被连接在体验机器上度过一生吗？

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And I imagine that for most of you, when you ask yourself, would you want your entire life ? to be spent hooked up to the experience machine?

我想你们中多数人，当你们自问，是否愿意,在体验机器上度过一生？

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So maybe if we want to say machines don't have a mental life and couldn't have a mental life, what we really mean is no machine could feel anything emotionally.

所以如果我们说机器,没有也不可能有精神生活,我们真正的意思是,机器不能对事物产生情绪

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So, imagine a life on the experience machine.

想象在体验机器上的人生。

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That's life on the experience machine.

那就是体验机器上的人生。

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Last time, I invited you to think about life on the experience machine, where the scientists are busy stimulating your brain in such a way as to give you an exact replica, from the insides of what it would be like having identical experiences to the ones you would have if you were really doing-- well, whatever it is that's worth doing.

上节课，我要你们思考,体验机里的生活，科学家们用它刺激你的大脑,给你一份完美的体验复制品，从体验相同的经历,到体验在现实生活中-,值得做的事情。

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