它并不是真的在燃烧——这一切都是你的想象。
你有时是否会为自己已逝的、不尽人意的童年追悔莫及,并认为这一切都是你的过错?
Do you sometimes have the feeling that you "flunked" childhood and it was all your fault?
如果它对你有好处,你会觉得所有这一切都是合理的,对吗?
If it was good for you, you would feel all the more justified, right?
They would pull out your entire life history of contributions-- they had it because you had filed it all at the post office and everything was bureaucratic and efficient-- and they calculated, according to a formula, what you would get.
政府会取出你这一生的交保记录-,这是由你自己在邮局填写的,所有的一切都行之有效-,然后他们根据公式计算你能得到养老金。
As he writes, The Astonishing Hypothesis is that: You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.
正如他在其著作《惊人的假说》中写到,你,你的喜悦,悲伤,回忆,抱负,你对人格同一性的感知,你的自由意志,事实上,这一切都不过,是大量神经细胞集,与其缔合分子的生理反应而已
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