The talk of the town
The talk of the town
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镇上的议论
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1994
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D. Schier
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这是为了充分利用这些家庭的相似性而精心设置的，因为一直到我们的初级意识的底部，我们都会把事物放在同一个类别中，如果它们看起来彼此相似的话。我们稍后会整理那些抓袋，如果我们试图仔细辩论，另一种方式是如果我们写歌词或讲故事。不可避免的暗示是，所有关于人类性格和行为的决定论理论都是错误的？就像亚原子行为的决定论一样错误。我们是大量的概率，而不是确定性，尽管没有海森堡制定了一个适用于我们的不确定性原则。一个简单的事实是，无论是在我们的身体和大脑的内部还是外部，无论是在微观世界还是宏观世界，在事情发生之前，任何事情都无法确定。这并不是说一切都会发生。当然，我们是在约束之下运作的，但这只是约束，而不是铁栏杆。最后一件事：可以说，在心智的工作中，最基本的事务是吸收身体内部或外部的新事物，以某种方式对其进行分类，将其置于早期经验的背景下，换句话说，大脑最基本的技能之一是管理比较的能力，以及将现在的感知与过去的感知联系起来的能力和事件。换句话说，大脑需要知道如何使用和回应修辞格，以及如何讲述和回应故事。逻辑和数学对一个头脑来说是很好的东西，但语言，修辞格和故事是头脑用来创造我们自己和我们世界的感觉的东西。这难道不是一个神经科学家带领我们得出的令人高兴的结论吗？
beautifully set up to make the most of those family resemblances, for all the way down to the bottom of our primary consciousness we will put things in the same category if they seem in any way like each other. We sort out those grab-bags later, one way if we are trying to argue carefully, another way if we are writing lyrics or telling stories. The inescapable implication is that all deterministic theories of hu man character and behavior are wrong?just as wrong as deterministic theories of subatomic behavior. We are a mass of probabilities, not cer tainties, though no Heisenberg has formulated an uncertainty principle to apply to us. The simple truth is that both inside and outside our bodies and brains, in both the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds, nothing can be determined until after it happens. That is not to say that anything goes. We operate within constraints, of course, but they are only constraints, not iron rails. One last matter: the fundamental transaction, so to speak, in the mind's work is the taking in of something new or newly occurring in side or outside the body, categorizing it in some way, placing it some how in the context of earlier experience, and deciding what if anything to do about it. In other words among the mind's most fundamental skills is an ability to manage comparisons and an ability to relate present to past perceptions and events. In still other words the mind needs to know how to use and respond to figures of speech and how to tell and respond to stories. Logic and mathematics are lovely things for a mind to have some mastery of, but language, figures of speech, and story are the stuff with which the mind creates its sense of our selves and of our worlds. And isn't that a happy conclusion for a neuroscientist to lead us to?