来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论 第10集 第10集》

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  our capacity to make decisions and judgments
  我们做出决定和判断的能力
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  is the product of a material physical brain.
  皆由一个物质的生理大脑所产生
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  What I want to talk about today and introduce it,
  今天我想讲的
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  and it's going to be a theme
  将会是
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  that we're going to continue throughout the rest of the course,
  贯穿我们接下来课程的一个主题
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  is a second idea which I think is equally shocking,
  也是第二个同样惊人的观点
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  perhaps more shocking.
  甚至可能更惊人
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  And this has to do with where mental life comes from,
  这个观点和我们的心理活动的来源有关
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  not necessary its material nature,
  重点不在于它的物质性
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  but rather its origin.
  而在于它的起源
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  And the notion, this other "astonishing hypothesis,"
  这又一"惊人的假说"
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  is what the philosopher Daniel Dennett has described
  被哲学家丹尼尔·丹尼特称之为