TED演讲之寻找真理:我们的意识(6)

But now, notice there are two ways of seeing the cube, right? 现在,你注意到了有两种方法来看那个立方体,对吧? It's a Necker cube. 这是一个内科尔方块。 Everybody can see the two ways of seeing the cube? OK. 大家都可以看出两种看方块的方法吧?好的 Can you see the four ways of seeing the cube? 那你们能看出四种方法来吗? Because there's another way of seeing it. 由于有不...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:无神论2.0(3)

And I'd like to run through a few of these today. 现在我想具体地解释一下 I'd like to kick off by looking at education. 先从教育说起 Now education is a field the secular world really believes in. 非宗教的人们十分相信学习、教育的力量 When we think about how we're going to make the world a better place, 我们觉得教育使世界进步 we think education; that's where we ...

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TED演讲之感动重临 用最有趣的方法让你晕头转向(2)

It's a song about people and sasquatches — and other French science stuff. 这是一首有关人们和长毛野人的歌曲,还有些法国科技的玩意 That's French science. Okay, here we go. 没错,法国科技。好,开唱 I've been trying inside 我一直内心在争斗 I know that I'm in trouble by myself 我知道我身陷囫囵 But every time it gets me 但每次它困扰我 And I've been tryin...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(6)

I am a working mother, and I also go to school full-time. 我是个母亲,但我同时要上班,还要全日制上学 And, you know, it's like — it's so important to have like role models out there. 要知道,能找到榜样是非常重要的 I mean, I know sometimes our lifestyles are very different, whatever. 我知道我们的生活方式很不一样 But like even at my job — like, I just got pr...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(2)

The second trap is a confusion between experience and memory; 第二个陷阱是经验和记忆间的混淆: basically, it's between being happy in your life, 基本上这是在生活中体会快乐 and being happy about your life or happy with your life. 与觉得生活很快乐以及对于你的生活满意之间的差别。 And those are two very different concepts, 这两者的意义相距甚远, and they're both lumped i...

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TED演讲之感动重临 献给欺凌的受害者

There's so many of you. 好多人呀。 When I was a kid, I hid my heart under the bed, because my mother said, 当我还是小孩子的时候,我把自己的心藏在床底下,因为我的妈妈告诉我, "If you're not careful, someday someone's going to break it." “你要是不小心保管,终有一天有人会摧毁它。” Take it from me. Under the bed is not a good hiding spot. 听我说,床底下并不...

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TED演讲之感动重临 用最有趣的方法让你晕头转向(1)

And that's one of the things that I enjoy most about this convention. 关于这大会我最享受的事之一就是 It's not so much, as so little as to do with what everything is. 都跟"万物为何"这个话题有着多多少少的关系 But it is within our self-interest to understand the topography of our lives unto ourselves. 了解一下生命的崎岖和我们自身的关系是为了自身利益 The future...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:哲学早餐俱乐部(8)

It's shocking to realize that only 28 percent of American adults 你们或许会惊讶于,只有28%的美国成年人 have even a very basic level of science literacy, 具备基本的科学知识, and this was tested by asking simple questions like, 而测试用的问题都是非常简单的: "Did humans and dinosaurs inhabit the Earth at the same time?" 例如“人类和恐龙是生活在一个时代的么?” and...

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TED演讲之感动重临 献给欺凌的受害者(4)

When I was a kid, I used to think that pork chops and karate chops were the same thing. 当我是小孩子的时候,我曾经认为“猪排骨”和“空手劈”是一样的。 I thought they were both pork chops. 我以为它们都是猪排的意思。 And because my grandmother thought it was cute, 而我的奶奶觉得我这样很可爱, and because they were my favorite, she let me keep doing it. 而因为我喜欢这些,所以她并没...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色

I should tell you that when I was asked to be here, I thought to myself that well, it's TED. 我要告诉你们当我接到大会邀请的时候,我对自己说,这可是TED呀 And these TEDsters are — you know, as innocent as that name sounds — 这些TEDsters虽然名字听起来是那么单纯而简单 these are the philanthropists and artists and scientists who sort of shape our world. 可都很不简...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(9)

And if you would choose a different vacation, 如果你选了个不同的假期, there is a conflict between your two selves, 你的两个自我之间将会产生冲突, and you need to think about how to adjudicate that conflict, 你得想法来裁决这场冲突, and it's actually not at all obvious, because if you think in terms of time, 这并不怎么容易,因为假若你仅考虑时间 then you get one answer, a...

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TED演讲之感动重临 献给欺凌的受害者(6)

He was a broken branch grafted onto a different family tree, adopted, 这个男生被嫁接在另外一个家庭上,被人领养, not because his parents opted for a different destiny. 并不是因为他的父母离婚了。 He was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone and two parts tragedy, 他在三岁的时候就饮下了一杯孤独、两杯苦难勾兑的酒, started therapy in eighth grade, had a pers...

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TED演讲之感动重临 献给欺凌的受害者(3)

From age 15 to 18, I hated myself for becoming the thing that I loathed: a bully. 在15到18岁之间,我憎恨自己,憎恨我变成了我厌恶的样子:一个恃强凌弱的人。 When I was 19, I wrote, "I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite." 19岁的时候,我写道:“我将爱我自己,不去在乎自己是否站在自己讨厌的位置。” Standing up for yourself doesn't ha...

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TED演讲之感动重临 用班卓琴来建设中美关系(3)

It's really been eight years since that fated night in Kentucky. 距离肯塔基那改变命运的一夜的确已经过去八年了 And I've played thousands of shows. 这期间我参加过数以千计的表演 And I've collaborated with so many incredible, inspirational musicians around the world. 我和不计其数的出色音乐人合作过,他们来自世界的各个地方 And I see the power of music. I see the power ...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(4)

This is an old study. Those are actual patients undergoing a painful procedure. 这是一个古老的研究。一些真正的病人将会接受一种痛苦的治疗方法。 I won't go into detail. It's no longer painful these days, 细节不再详述。现今的疗法已不再如此难受, but it was painful when this study was run in the 1990s. 但在研究进行的九十年代时,这种方法令人痛不欲生。 They were asked to r...

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TED演讲之感动重临 用班卓琴来建设中美关系(2)

I knew I had to take a banjo with me to China. 我这时候知道我肯定会带着班卓琴去中国了 So before going to law school in China, I bought a banjo, 在出发去中国的法学院之前,我买了个班卓琴, I threw it in my little red truck and I traveled down through Appalachia 把它扔进我的红色小皮卡里,然后我一路开到了阿巴拉契亚 and I learned a bunch of old American songs, 途中也学了一堆美国...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(2)

And so I've brought a couple of them with me. And well, they're very excited. 我今天把她们几个一起带来了。她们都非常激动 What I should tell you — what I should tell you is that they've each prepared their own little TED talks. 我要告诉你们,她们每个人都准备了一小段TED演讲 So feel free to think of this as Sarah University. 所以你们尽可以把这里想成是莎拉大学 ...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(4)

You know, between the environmental degradation and the crashing of the world markets you're talking about. 比如你们说的环境恶化的问题,全球市场崩溃的问题 And of course, we know it's all because of the — all the … 当然我们都知道这一切都是因为,所有那些… Well, I don't know how else to say it to you, so I'll just say it my way: 我真不知道还能...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜

Everybody talks about happiness these days. 最近大家都在谈论着快乐。 I had somebody count the number of books with "happiness" in the title published in the last five years 在过去的五年里,我请人数了近年来有多本书的书名中提到“快乐”, and they gave up after about 40, and there were many more. 他们数到大约有40本,而且还有更多没数到的。 There is a huge wave of interes...

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TED演讲之感动重临 我的多调人声(2)

So there's things you can't do, and these limitations on the human voice have always really annoyed me, 所以说,总有声响是你发不出来的,这些人声的局限总是困扰我呀 because beatbox is the best way of getting musical ideas out of your head and into the world, 因为B-Box是把你脑子里的音乐想法发挥出来并走向世界的最好的办法 but they're sketches at best, which is what...

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