你现在所读到的文字，其实是由一大堆任意组合的符号所构成的。

These words you are reading are really just a collection of arbitrary symbols.

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它只是一堆令人费解的符号。

It's just a bunch of gobbledygook symbols.

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所以说，我们并不知道发生了什么，不知道那一堆堆纸那些屏幕上的符号是如何穿越空间进入我们脑中的。

So we don't know exactly what is happening, how the piles of pages or markings on the screen are transformed into other worlds inside our minds.

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