Babies expect there to be an entire, complete bar and are surprised and look longer at the broken bar.

婴儿会期待那是一根完整的木杆,所以会对断开的木杆感到惊讶,并且会有更长的注视时间

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So one very simple study by Spelke and Baillargeon: Have babies shown a block with a bar going back and forth like that.

斯皮克和巴亚热昂做了一个简单的研究,向婴儿呈现一个木块,木块中间有一个能够来回移动的木杆,就像这个样子

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But of course, if you were a simple perceptual creature, you would just see that there'd be a bar on top and a bar on the bottom.

如果你只是个拥有感知的简单生物,你只会看到在顶端和底端分别有一根木杆

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When you see a display like that, what you assume is there's a bar there, and what that means is there's something in the middle that you've never seen before.

当你看到这样的演示时,你已经假定那里有一根木杆,也就是说中间的部分,有你之前所未曾见过的物体

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So the bar just goes back and forth.

这个木杆可以来回移动

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