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Now, let me spend the rest of my time on the third big problem, 现在，让我把余下的时间花在对第三个重大问题的探讨上。 because it's more subtle and perhaps difficult to grasp. 因为这个问题更加微妙，也可能难以把握。 Think about some time in your life — 试着回忆一下你生命中的某些时刻—— some people might never have experienced it — but some people, 有些人可能从未...
I would say that there are many, many gaps in secular life and these can be plugged. 我觉得世俗的世界是有许多缺点的，但是那些缺点是可以被弥补的 It's not as though, as I try to suggest, 但这不是说 it's not as though either you have religion and then you have to accept all sorts of things 要么你相信宗教，然后你就要相信宗教所有的教条 or you don't have religion and t...
Now, this nice picture shows a thought-balloon, a thought-bubble. 好了，这张图展示的是一个“思维泡泡”。 I think everybody understands what that means. 我想大家都知道这是什么意思。 That's supposed to exhibit the stream of consciousness. 它展示了意识流。 This is my favorite picture of consciousness that's ever been done. 这是到目前，我最喜欢的展示意识的图片。 It's a...
He likes chocolate, he likes vanilla. 他喜欢巧克力，他喜欢香草 There's nothing that one should be able to say to the other that should persuade the other. 无论跟他们说什么，都不能改变他们。 Notice that we don't do this in science. 但我们不会这样讨论科学 On the left you have Edward Witten. He's a string theorist. 左边这位是爱德华·威滕。他是弦理论的专家 If you ask ...
I want to talk today about 今天我所要讲的是 I've been asked to take the long view, 他们让我谈谈长远的观点 and I'm going to tell you what I think are the three biggest problems for humanity from this long point of view. 我要告诉你们，我认为，从长远来看，人类面临着三大问题。 Some of these have already been touched upon by other speakers, which is encouraging. 其中有些...
My view is that museums should take a leaf out of the book of religions. 我觉得艺术馆应该向宗教学习 And they should make sure that when you walk into a museum — if I was a museum curator, 艺术馆应该确保，当游客走进馆内时候–如果我是馆长 I would make a room for love, a room for generosity. 我会专门为爱，为慷慨而准备特定的展览 All works of art are talking to us abou...
We recognize them in relation to corporations. 我们还认同他们像个企业 And corporations are very like religions in many ways, except they're right down at the bottom of the pyramid of needs. 公司企业和宗教有些相似之处，不过企业只提供最基本的物质 They're selling us shoes and cars. 企业给我们鞋子和汽车 Whereas the people who are selling us the higher stuff — the t...
So, some combustible material there. 让我提出一些争议性的问题 Whether in this audience or people elsewhere in the world, 这里有某些人，或现在在世界上别的角落 hearing some of this, may well be doing the screaming-with-rage thing, after as well, some of them. 可能有人听见这个，然后愤怒或尖叫。某些人。 Language seems to be really important here. 语言似乎是个很重要的元素 When yo...
In fact, most of us do, 事实上，我们大多数也会拒绝 whether we're atheist or theist or anywhere in between or beyond, for that matter, 无论我们是无神论者或有神论者，或中间派或超越二者，就此而言 what drives us is that, despite our doubts and even because of our doubts, we reject the nihilism of despair. 让我们前进的是：尽管我们会怀疑，甚至正是因为我们怀疑，我们排斥絶望的虚...
Existential risk — the second big problem. 存在风险——第二个重大问题。 Existential risk is a threat to human survival, or to the long-term potential of our species. 存在风险是对人类生存，或对整个人类种群的长远潜能的一种威胁。 Now, why do I say that this is a big problem? 为什么我会认为这是一个重大问题？ Well, let's first look at the probability — 让我们来看看...
Writing biography is a strange thing to do. 撰写传记是一件不可思议的事情 It's a journey into the foreign territory of somebody else's life, 记下别人的一生就如异国旅程一样 a journey, an exploration that can take you places you never dreamed of going 这段旅程让你探索那些从未想过的地方 and still can't quite believe you've been, especially if, like me, you're...
Imagine a species that just didn't have this neural machinery for processing music. 假设有这样一个物种，它们刚好没有能够处理音乐的神经装置。 And they would just stare at us with bafflement 当我们花时间聆听一曲美妙的演奏时， when we spend time listening to a beautiful performance, 就像我们刚听到的那支， like the one we just heard — because of people making stupid mo...
In effect, they are the infidels. 实际上，他们才是异教徒 Like fundamentalists of all religious stripes, they have no questions, only answers. 像所有不同宗教的原教旨主义者一样，他们没有发问问题，只有答案 They found the perfect antidote to thought and the ideal refuge of the hard demands of real faith. 为思想找到了完美的对抗手段，为对真正的信仰提供理想避难所 They don't hav...
But part of the reason 但另一方面的原因 and that's the reason why we have ethical ground for pursuing these 即从人类的本质上看，它们也是很有价值的， is that they're also intrinsically valuable. 这也是为什么我们拥有追求这些特质的道德基础。 It's just better to be able to understand more of the world around you 去理解你周围的世界和人 and the people that you are comm...
In fact, the endurance of religion as a lens through which most people view moral questions 事实上，在许久以来，宗教成为人们关注道德的角度 has separated most moral talk from real questions of human and animal suffering. 让所有的道德议题都和人类和动物的痛苦脱钩 This is why we spend our time talking about things like gay marriage 这就是为什么我们花费精神讨论同性恋是不是应该结...
And we know that it's possible to move along this continuum 我们知道我们可以解决这些持续已久的问题 towards something quite a bit more idyllic, 走向一个较为理想的状况 to a place where a conference like this is even conceivable. 像我们现在这样，齐聚一堂，和平讨论 And we know — we know — that there are right and wrong answers to how to move in this space. 我们知...
The other thing that religions know is we're not just brains, we are also bodies. 宗教还知道我们人类不仅仅有智慧，我们还有躯体 And when they teach us a lesson, they do it via the body. 所以他们通过身体来教会我们道理 So for example, take the Jewish idea of forgiveness. 举个例子，像是犹太人懂得宽容 Jews are very interested in forgiveness and how we should start anew and st...
I'm interested in the kind of constituency that thinks something along these lines: 我对有些情况非常感兴趣，有些人会说： that thinks, "I can't believe in any of this stuff. “我完全不相信这些宗教 I can't believe in the doctrines. 那些教义，那些学说 I don't think these doctrines are right. 我觉得它们全部都是假的 But," a very important but, "I lov...
And so therefore whatever cultural variation there is in how human beings flourish 于是不管有多少不同文化对人类的幸福有多少不同想法 can, at least in principle, be understood in the context of a maturing science of the mind — neuroscience, psychology, etc. 都可以原则性地以成熟的闹内科学作为理解的办法，神经科学、心理学等等 So, what I'm arguing is that value's red...
If you went to a top university — let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge — 如果你去顶尖学府，像是哈佛，牛津，或者剑桥 and you said, "I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; 然后你对他们说，"我想找到指引，慰藉，和道德" I want to know how to live," they would show you the way to the i...