是的，我在写这篇专栏的时候确实咬指甲了。有时就算是一个好理论也帮不上忙。

And, yes, I did bite my nails while writing this column. Sometimes even a good theory doesn't help.

youdao

我们所处的情况是，没有好的理论来解释意识究竟是什么，以及如何制造一台能到达意识层面的机器。

We are just in a situation where there are no good theories explaining what consciousness actually is and how you could ever build a machine to get there.

youdao

那么问题就是IMF的新工具在实际应用中是否如其理论看上去的那样好。

The question, then is whether the IMF’s new facility is as good in practice as it seems to be in theory.

youdao

All right. With all this said, how can the theorist recuperate honor for certain names like, for example, his own?

好了，说完这些以后，一个理论家该如何,为一些特定的名字，比如，他自己的，恢复尊严呢？

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All right, so we can now see a little bit of what the power of molecular orbital theory is in predicting what kind of bonds we're going to see in molecules, or whether or not we'll see this bonding occur at all.

好了，我们已经可以看到一点,分子轨道理论在预测分子中,所成的键或者分子，能不能成键方面的能力了。

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All right,so on the body view,I exist here, but I'm not alive,so it doesn't give me what matters.

好了，在肉体理论角度，我存在于此，但我并不是活着的，这不是我想要的关键。

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