I think the trend is focusing on people's daily mental life now.

我认为现在的趋势是关注人们的日常心理生活。

And this has to do with where mental life comes from, not necessary its material nature, but rather its origin.

这与精神生活的来源有关，不一定是其物质本质， 而是其起源。

And it's through these clever ways that neurons can affect your mental life.

正是通过这些巧妙的方式，神经元可以影响你的精神生活。

Fish don't have any of that, so no offense to fish but it's--fish don't have much of a mental life.

鱼没有这些，所以对鱼没有冒犯，但它是——鱼没有太多的精神生活。

Habit is a very intrusive feature of our mental life, and is often present where at first sight it seems not to be.

习惯是我们精神生活的一个非常侵入性的特征， 并且经常出现在乍一看似乎不存在的地方。

Finally, there is strong evidence that the brain is involved in mental life.

最后，有强有力的证据表明大脑参与了精神生活。

We will go over and over and over again different case studies where some really interesting aspects of mental life prove to be unconscious.

我们将一遍又一遍地进行不同的案例研究，其中精神生活的一些真正有趣的方面被证明是无意识的。

This tendency is rather disturbing, for reading extensively is no less necessary to one's mental life than fresh air is to one's physical life.

这种趋势着实令人担忧，因为广泛阅读对我们的精神生活来说，犹如新鲜空气对身体一样不可或缺。

But what's new is we can now in different ways see the direct effects of mental life.

但新的是，我们现在可以通过不同的方式看到精神生活的直接影响。

Experience offers proof on every hand that vigorous mental life may be but one side of a personality, of which the other is moral barbarism.

经验在各个方面都证明， 充满活力的精神生活可能只是人格的一方面， 而另一方面则是道德野蛮。

These experiences lead to an abnormal attachment pattern that inhibits normal development of a capacity to be reflective about one's own mental life and the mental lives of others.

这些经历会导致异常的依恋模式， 从而抑制反思自己的精神生活和他人的精神生活的能力的正常发展。

So the right question to ask may not be, " Why are some things unconscious? " but rather, why is this tiny subset of mental life--why is this conscious?

所以正确的问题可能不是“为什么有些事情是无意识的？”而是，为什么这是精神生活的一小部分——为什么是有意识的？

Studies using imaging techniques like CAT scans, PET, and fMRI, illustrate that different parts of the brain are active during different parts of mental life.

使用 CAT 扫描、PET 和 fMRI 等成像技术的研究表明，大脑的不同部分在精神生活的不同部分是活跃的。

You may choose to embrace dualism, reject the idea that the brain is responsible for mental life, and reject the promise of a scientific psychology.

你可能会选择接受二元论，拒绝大脑负责精神生活的观点，拒绝科学心理学的承诺。

Now, so what you have is--the scientific consensus is that all of mental life including consciousness and emotions and choice and morality are the products of brain activities.

现在，你所拥有的是——科学上的共识是，所有的精神生活，包括意识、情感、选择和道德，都是大脑活动的产物。

(I am speaking within the circle of conventional doctrines, not expressing my own beliefs.) This direction towards an object is commonly regarded as typical of every form of cognition, and sometimes of mental life altogether.

（我是在传统学说的范围内发言， 而不是表达我自己的信仰。）这种朝向一个对象的方向通常被认为是每一种认知形式的典型， 有时甚至是整个精神生活的典型。

The second bit of humility we'll end the class on is I am presenting here, and I'll be presenting throughout this semester, what you can call a mechanistic conception of mental life.

我们将结束课程的第二点谦虚是我在这里展示，我将在整个学期展示， 你可以称之为精神生活的机械概念。

This is what Francis Crick described as " The Astonishing Hypothesis, " the idea that our mental life, our consciousness, our morality, our capacity to make decisions and judgments is the product of a material physical brain.

这就是弗朗西斯·克里克所描述的“令人惊讶的假说”，即我们的精神生活、我们的意识、我们的道德、我们做出决定和判断的能力是物质大脑的产物。

You bring these together and it forces you to the perspective that what we are--our mental life is no less than the eye, no less than camouflage, the product of this purely physical process of natural selection.

你把这些放在一起， 它迫使你认识到我们是什么——我们的精神生活不亚于眼睛，不亚于伪装， 是自然选择的纯粹物理过程的产物。

It seems also that your subjectivity has a mysterious unknown quality about it, and that even your mental life has a sort of insidious dropping-off point, a subjective cliff over which thoughts and memories fall, to disappear into nothingness.

似乎你的主观性也有一种神秘的未知品质，甚至你的精神生活也有一种阴险的落脚点，一个主观的悬崖，思想和记忆从上面坠落，消失于虚无。