To understand the Turing model of 'the brain', it was crucial to see that it regarded physics and chemistry, including all the arguments about quantum mechanics to which Eddington had appealed, as essentially irrelevant.
要理解图灵的大脑模型，最关键的是要看到，它与物理和化学，以及爱丁顿提到的关于量子力学的想法，都是不相关的。
In his view, the physics and chemistry were relevant only in as much as they sustained the medium for the embodiment of discrete 'states', 'reading' and 'writing'.
在他的观点中，物理和化学唯一的用处，就是作为离散状态和输入输出的表现载体。
Only the logical pattern of these 'states' could really matter.
真正重要的是这些状态的逻辑模式。
The claim was that whatever a brain did, it did by virtue of its structure as a logical system, and not because it was inside a person's head, or because it was a spongy tissue made up of a particular kind of biological cell formation.
无论大脑要做什么，都是因为它的逻辑结构，而不是因为它在人头里，也不是因为它是由细胞组成的有弹性的组织。
And if this were so, then its logical structure could just as well be represented in some other medium, embodied by some other physical machinery.
既然是这样，那么它的逻辑结构就可以用其它载体来实现，比如一台机器。
It was a materialist view of mind, but one that did not confuse logical patterns and relations with physical substances and thing, as so often people did.
这是唯物论的看法，它不会将逻辑模式与物理实体混淆，人们经常会把这搞混。
In particular it was a different claim from that of behaviourist psychology, which spoke of reducing psychology to physics.
特别的是，这与行为主义心理学的观点不同，行为主义者讨论的是，把心理学归约到物理学。
The Turing model did not seek to explain one kind of phenomenon, that of mind, in terms of another. It did not expect to 'reduce' psychology to anything.
而图灵机模型显然不是要用其它东西来解释思维现象，它并不是要归约心理学。
The thesis was that 'mind' or psychology could properly be described in terms of Turing machines because they both lay on the same level of description of the world, that of discrete logical systems.
他的观点是，思维或者心理，之所以能用图灵机来合理描述，是因为在一个离散逻辑系统的世界的描述中，它们是处于同一层面的。
It was not a reduction, but an attempt at transference, when he imagined embodying such systems in an artificial 'brain'.
这不是一种归约，而是尝试一种变换，他想象将这样的系统，实现在一个人工的大脑中。