生命的意义

But if our choices are just physics

但我们的选择若只是物理现象

does it mean we are deluding ourselves?

那是否表示我们在自欺欺人

And there is no meaning to life?

而且生命并没有意义呢

To find the answer,we have to go even deeper and question the very nature...of reality itself.Reality.

要找出答案 就必须更深入探讨并质疑 现实的本质为何 现实

Most of us share the same common sense view of what reality is.

我们多数人对于何谓现实 有共同的常识与观点

The world around us exists independently from us.

我们周遭的世界独立于我们而存在

It's full of real things that are really there.

充满了确实存在的真实事物

But science is unraveling this basic assumption

但科学解开了这个基本假设

Which handily leech us to the meaning of life.

引导我们去了解生命的意义

Take this little girl here,walking around through a busy market in Monza,Italy.

以这个小女孩为例 她走在意大利蒙扎烦嚣喧闹的市集

Her reality is a riot of sound,color,taste and smell.

她所知的现实 混杂了声音 颜色 味道与气味

All based on the many bits of information

这一切都根据她的感官

her senses are feeding her brain.

供给大脑的大量资讯

But once we accept that the mind is like a weather system in the brain

然而我们一旦认定 心灵就如同大脑里的天气系统

and governed by physics,yet unpredictable...

受控于物理现象却又无法预测

Reality itself begins to break down.

现实本身就开始瓦解了

It becomes subjective:

现实开始变主观了

My reality is different than yours...Or this fishes.

我所知的现实与你所知的现实不一样 也和这条鱼所知的现实不同

重点讲解

1、common

常见的;普遍的

His name was Hansen, a common name in Norway.

他的名字叫汉森，在挪威是一个常见的名字。

Oil pollution is the commonest cause of death for seabirds.

石油污染是造成海鸟死亡最常见的原因。

共有的;共同的

Moldavians and Romanians share a common language.

摩尔达维亚人和罗马尼亚人使用同一种语言。

Such behaviour is common to all young people.

这种行为在年轻人中司空见惯。

寻常的;普通的

Democracy might elevate the common man to a position of political superiority.

民主也许能提升普通人的政治地位，让他们产生优越感。

Common salt is made up of 40% sodium and 60% chloride.

食盐由40%的钠和60%的氯化物构成。

2、assumption

假定;假设;臆断

They have taken a wrong turning in their assumption that all men and women think alike.

他们错误地设想所有男女均见解一致。

Dr Subroto questioned the scientific assumption on which the global warming theory is based.

苏布罗托博士质疑全球变暖理论所依据的科学假设。

（权力的）取得；（责任的）承担

The government have retained the support which greeted their assumption of power last March.

自从在刚过去的三月掌权以来，政府的支持率依旧未减。