Suppose instead, I want a machine that can take a recipe, the description of a sequence of steps, take that as its input, and then that machine will now act like what is described in that recipe.

假设换成这个，我想要一台可以安装描述，一系列步骤的结果的方法的机器，把那个当做输入设备，然后那台机器可以像方法中,描述的那样运行了。

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Still, when you think to yourself, what's the--what's going on inside the machine?

但是,我们可以想想,机器的内在是什么样的

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You can put somebody in an MRI machine now and have them read a book and look at what parts of their brain become activated when they're reading and what parts stop activating when they stop reading, so you can learn where in their brain is reading done.

现在如果有人躺在核磁共振仪中进行阅读,我们就可以看到,在阅读时,大脑哪些部位变得活跃,停止阅读时哪些部位停止活动,这样我们就知道了,大脑中什么部位是和阅读相关的

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But because we're now programming a computer at a lower level and because as we said last week, you really have to be precise and then careful to instruct this machine, this fairly dumb machine that will only do what you tell it to do very specific instructions, do we have to use a more precise syntax than just a puzzle piece might have previously allowed.

但是我们是要在电脑的低平台上编程不是吗？,那我们就要像我上周提到过的那样，一定要小心，小心，再小心地,操纵这台又聋又哑的机器,它只会根据你敲进去的,特定指令来做事，所以我们必须使用非常精细的语法,而不是模模糊糊，让人费解的概念。

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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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What's wrong with the experience machine?

体验机器到底有什么问题？

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And if we had more time we could spell out rival theories of well-being, which could be interestingly distinguished one from another in terms of how they answer the question, ?" "What's missing from the experience machine?"

如果我们有更多的时间,我们可以谈谈幸福的各种理论，有意思的是，它们各不相同,他们对这个问题的答案不同，即“体验机器里缺少了什么“

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