If it was non-reversible, I would be allowed to put an initial point and a final point, but I wouldn't be allowed to put a path between them like this, connecting them together.

如果是不可逆过程，我可以画出过程的初态点,和末态点，但是我不能再像这样,画出连接这两个点的，路径曲线来。

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We take Johns' brain, we put it in Smith's torsel we hook up all the wires as it were, ? the thing wakes up, who is that?

把约翰斯的大脑放进史密斯的躯干,再把各个部位按原样连接好，它醒了，它是谁？

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So it's some way of interfacing activity in your brain with the outside world, and we'll talk about this as we go along, but there's lots of reasons to think that we're going to have this in the not too distant future.

它是一种将大脑,和外部世界连接起来的办法,当我们遇到这个问题的时候再细讲,但我们非常有理由相信,不远的将来我们就能应用这些技术

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