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I don't know how clear-cut these experiments are but there are experiments that have been done on the timing of consciousness

我不知道这些实验有多明确 但是有过关于意识时间的实验

and they seem to lead to a very odd picture which doesn't even quite make consistent sense.

它们似乎都会得到一幅非常奇怪的图景 而这图像也没有什么确切的意义

Whether refinement of these experiments might get rid of this kind of anomaly I'm not sure

我不确定这些实验的精细 是否能摆脱这种异常

but it does look a little as though there is something very odd about consciousness

但是它看起来有点像 与意识有关的奇怪的东西

and somehow almost as though the future affects the past in some way

还像是未来在某种程度上影响了过去

over a very tiny, limited scale, but something maybe of the order of a reasonable fraction of a second.

这种影响只在非常小且有限的尺度上 或者是什么只在一秒内有序的东西

And there's no reason to believe that one's conscious experience shouldn't be part of somebody else's shouldn't be part of somebody else's

没理由相信一个人的意识体验 在另一些阶段不会成为 别人意识的一部分

I don't know if it's fair to say what happens after one dies but it's a plausible picture

我不知道这是否可信 说一个人死后 他可能会成为另一个人

that you could be somebody else and that somebody else could be somebody that lived in the past,not in the future.

但这貌似是很有可能的 并且某人可能是活在过去的某个人 而不是未来的

Even if there is only one possible unified theory that is just a set of rules and equations

即使只有一种可能的大统一理论 即一套准则和方程

what is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

那是什么扰乱了这些等式 制造出一个它们所描绘的宇宙呢

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

为什么宇宙要自寻烦恼

Is the unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence?

是否是大统一理论如此势不可挡 以至于引起其自身存在的问题

Or does it need a creator?And, if so who created him?

或许 他需要一个创造者 如果是这样 是谁创造了创造者

重点讲解

1、consistent

(行为、态度等)一贯的，一致的，始终如一的

Becker has never been the most consistent of players anyway.

不管怎么说，贝克尔从来就不是表现最为稳定的球员。

his consistent support of free trade.

他对自由贸易始终如一的支持

（观点等）一致的，吻合的，不矛盾的

This result is consistent with the findings of Garnett and Tobin.

这个结果与加尼特托宾公司的调查结果一致。

New goals are not always consistent with the existing policies.

新目标并不总是与现行政策一致。

(观点或看法)前后一致的，连贯的

These are clear consistent policies which we are putting into place.

这些就是我们正在付诸实施的政策，不但清楚而且前后一致。

2、describe

描述;描写;形容;叙述

We asked her to describe what kind of things she did in her spare time.

我们请她描述一下她业余时间都在做什么。

She broke down describing how she was arrested for refusing a breath test.

她在叙述自己如何因为拒绝接受呼吸测试而被捕时再也控制不住情绪。

把…说成;把…称为;认为

He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale.

他说那是一个非常曲折复杂的故事。

Eriksson described him as 'the best player on the pitch'.

埃里克森称他是“场上最好的球员”。

描画，画出(图形);形成…的形状

His pass described a perfect arc through the leaden sky.

他的传球在阴沉的天空中划出了一道完美的弧线。