If we project ourselves in, say, a thousand years, will we be able to learn and understand significantly more than we do today?

如果我们设想自己在 1000 年后，我们能否比今天学习和理解更多？

But there are all kinds of other ways we mess up when we try to project ourselves into the future.

Eoin：但是当我们试图将自己投射到未来时，我们会以各种其他方式搞砸。

Tim Wilson: I mean, human beings are the only species, as far as we know, that has the ability to project ourselves into the future.

蒂姆·威尔逊：我的意思是，据我们所知， 人类是唯一有能力将自己投射到未来的物种。

Furthermore, one could argue that it's our ability to mentally time travel and retrieve important lessons from our past, and project ourselves into a multitude of potential futures that makes us so powerful as a species.

此外，有人可能会说，正是我们能在精神上进行时间旅行，还有能从过去获取重要经验教训，以及能将自己投射到诸多潜在的未来，才使得我们成为如此强大的一个物种。