And in 1961, during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, John Kennedy urged people to take an active part in the future: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

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This is boring. In fact, you can do some nice things to prove what is the class of functions you can compute with straight-line programs, and what you'd see if you did that is, it's not particularly interesting.

这很无聊，实际上，你可以通过做一些很有趣的事情,来证明你可以通过直线程序,来做很多功能，但是你也看到我们之前讲过的了，这不太有趣。

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But for those of you who raised your hand just tell me I mean why do you think--what makes you believe food can be addictive?

但那些举手的同学,请你们告诉我,你为什么觉得食物会上瘾呢

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But what happens is you can do a two-step process.

但你可以采取两步法。

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What you could do hundreds of years ago-- and can still do it today-- was go to a bank and present this bond or IOU and say, "What will you give me for it?"

在数百年前你们能做的,在今天还是能够做到的就是,到银行出示这份合约或欠条,问,你们根据它能给我多少钱

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And what the physicalist would need to do for each one of those-- For each one of those you can imagine a dualist who says, "We need to believe in a soul so as to explain seances.

对于这些东西,物理主义者该怎么做,对于这些,你可以想到二元论者会说,我们需要相信有灵魂才能解释通灵

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I have connected to the course's central server from my own laptop and via dot slash chart am I about to run a little program that depicts as best we can with what with generally call ASCII art -- -- it's really all you can do in a terminal window like this -- our numbers from the past few years.

我已经通过我的电脑连接到了课程的中心服务器,在我的笔记本电脑上，通过键入“，/chart“,我将要运行一个被描写成,“ASCII码艺术“的小程序-,在一个这样的终端窗口中你们都可以做到-,过去几年中我们的人数。

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So what I'd urge you to do is to find-- get the clicker as soon as you can and we'll start using it fairly soon in the class.

所以我劝大家赶紧去领取,越快越好,这样等会讲课时大家都能用上

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That's a little bit of a tricky question but-- So, do the best you can on it and think-- try to think about what this kind of theory would imply for gambling behavior.

这个问题有些难度,但是...,尽力思考这个问题,思考下这一理论,该如何应用到赌博行为上去

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