布兰德这样写道：“一次，我与格雷戈里·贝特森进行讨论，当两人都沉湎于思考意识的功能是什么，或者意识到底有没有功能(指自我意识)时，我向他提出了这个问题。”

Writes Brand of his riddle: "I asked the question of Gregory Bateson at a point in our interview when we were lost in contemplation of the function, if any, of consciousness — self-consciousness."

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那么“难度”是什么呢？我看，第一点就是它那种特殊和高度自我意识的语言运用，让人感到与通常表达不一样。

By "difficult," it is meant, I think, well, first of all that it is in some sense set apart from common speech, as a specialized and highly self-conscious use of language.

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那么“难度”是什么呢？我看，第一点就是它那种特殊和高度自我意识的语言运用，让人感到与通常表达不一样。

By "difficult," it is meant, I think, well, first of all that it is in some sense set apart from common speech, as a specialized and highly self-conscious use of language.

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