RayKurzweil_2014准备好进入混合思维的时代.docxVIP

1.Let me tell you a story. 让我来给你们讲个故事。2.It goes back 200 million years. 要追溯到两亿年前。3.Its a story of the neocortex, which means new rind. 是个关于新大脑皮层的故事， 讲的就是大脑的表层。4.So in these early mammals, because only mammals have a neocortex, rodent-like creatures. 对于早期的哺乳类动物， 由于只有他们有新大脑皮层， 就像啮齿类的生物。5.It was the size of a postage stamp and just as thin, and was a thin covering around their walnut-sized brain, but it was capable of a new type of thinking. 皮质尺寸像邮票一样而且很薄， 这个薄的皮质包裹着他们 像核桃大小的头脑。 但它可以产生新的思维方式。6.Rather than the fixed behaviors that non-mammalian animals have, it could invent new behaviors. 不像那些非哺乳类动物， 只有固定的行为， 它可以创造新的行为。7.So a mouse is escaping a predator, its path is blocked, itll try to invent a new solution. 例如一只老鼠在逃避捕食者， 它的路被堵住了， 就想想出一个新的解决方案。8.That may work, it may not, but if it does, it will remember that and have a new behavior, and that can actually spread virally through the rest of the community. 那方案可能成功也可能失败， 但如果成功了，它就会记住， 于是就有了一种新的行为， 同时那个方案会迅速传遍 到其余的团体。9.Another mouse watching this could say, Hey, that was pretty clever, going around that rock, and it could adopt a new behavior as well. 比如另一只老鼠看到这会说， “噢，绕过那块岩石，真是高明，” 于是它也会采取那种行为。10.Non-mammalian animals couldnt do any of those things. 非哺乳类动物 不能做这些事情。11.They had fixed behaviors. 因为他们有固定的行为方式。12.Now they could learn a new behavior but not in the course of one lifetime. 现在他们能学习新的行为 但不是在一个生命的过程中。13.In the course of maybe a thousand lifetimes, it could evolve a new fixed behavior. 也许在几千个生命周期内， 它可以衍生出一个新的固定的行为。14.That was perfectly okay 200 million years ago. 那对两亿年前来讲是好极了。15.The environment changed very slowly. 那时的环境变化很慢。16.It could take 10,000 years for there to be a significant environmental change, and during that period of time it would evolve a new behavior. 那时可能要过一万年才会 发生一次巨大的环境变化， 在那期间， 可能进化一种新的行为。17.Now that went along fine, but then something happened. 那样发展似乎还不错， 但有些事情发生了。18.Sixty-five million years ago, there was a sudden, violent change