If unfamiliar, these are the mechanical computer devices that you have to use to buy a ticket on the T these days and there was one of these really awkward but touching situations where it was clear that this woman had no idea, you know, what to do, how to get from here to here, and I could see her just staring at the turnstiles that you're supposed to go through to get into the subway.

如果不熟悉，这是机械计算机设备,当今你必须使用它们来买地铁票,它们实在是难操作的,这个令人同情的情况是,明显这位老太太不知道怎样操作，怎样从这一步到那一步,我看见她只是凝视着,地铁的栅门口。

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No merely mechanical object, no robot, no computer could have free will.

没有哪个机械的物体,也没有哪个机器人,哪个电脑能有自由意志

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