My favorite game was the pinball machine!

我最喜欢的游戏是弹珠台！

You can think of these states as your brain being two different types of pinball machines.

你可以把这些状态想象成你的大脑是两种不同类型的弹球机。

Thank god. You made me spring for that surveillance camera. I wanted to spend money on a pinball machine.

感谢上帝。你让我装了监视器。我原先打算用这钱购置一台弹球机的。

People talking, the sound system blaring, the pinball machine, the video games.

人们在说话，音响系统的声音，弹球机，电子游戏。

Oh, is it that pinball machine with the big bow on it?

是那个打了蝴蝶结的弹珠台吗？

Oh, is it that pinball machine with the big bow on it?

哦，是不是那张挂着长弓的弹球机？

In principle, according to this view, a pinball machine could be conscious, if it were made much more complex.

原则上，根据这种观点，如果弹球机变得更加复杂，它就可以有意识。

Okay, maybe we can imagine photons of light, passing through a medium, bouncing off particles like a pinball machine before popping out the other end.

好吧，也许我们可以想象光子穿过介质，像弹球机一样在粒子上反弹，然后从另一端弹出。

Pinball machine maker Gary Stern says people like playing because it's physical - more like a sport than a video game.

弹球机制造商加里·斯特恩说，人们喜欢玩是因为它是体育运动——更像是一项运动而不是视频游戏。

They rely on an account of " computational functionalism, " according to which consciousness is reduced to pieces of information passed back and forth within a system, like in a pinball machine.

他们依赖于“计算功能主义”的解释，根据该解释，意识被简化为在系统内来回传递的信息片段，就像在弹球机中一样。

In the first few seconds after the Big Bang, the universe was a sea of free electrons and atomic nuclei, so unbelievably hot and dense that not even photons could escape that opaque cosmic pinball machine.

在大爆炸后的最初几秒钟，宇宙是自由电子和原子核的海洋，温度高得令人难以置信， 密度大到连光子都无法逃脱那台不透明的宇宙弹球机。