And, in particular, I want to lead off the class with an idea that the Nobel Prize winning biologist, Francis Crick, described as "The Astonishing Hypothesis."

我想先提到一种观点,这种观点的提出者是位诺贝尔奖得主,生物学家,弗兰西斯·克里克,他将这种观点称为"惊人的假说"

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And The Astonishing Hypothesis is summarized like this.

这一惊人的假说大致观点如下

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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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