Name: 【TED】大衛-多伊奇:一種新的解釋方式(David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation) (【TED】David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation (David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:25:59.000Z
Duration: 17 min 15 s

I'm sure that, throughout the hundred-thousand-odd years

譯者: LI CHENXI 審譯者: Pei-Jan Hung

我很確定，在人類這種物種存活的

our ancestors looked up at the night sky,

only wondered that occasionally, like today,

就像現在一樣，只是偶而會想知道

and how they could rest when they were tired

住得更加溫暖，更加涼爽，更加安全

But they failed, almost completely, to make any.

他們渴望進步，就跟我們一樣。

不過，他們幾乎是一敗塗地，沒有獲得任何進展。

happened so rarely, that from an individual's point of view,

極少發生，所以從人的觀點而言，

The first clue to the origin of starlight

happened as recently as 1899: radioactivity.

physicists discovered the whole explanation,

如同往常，這些解釋以優雅的符號表現出來。

the conversion of mass to energy -- that's E=mc^2 --

That ancient dream that had always eluded the alchemists

核嬗變 （一種元素通過核反應轉化成另外一種元素）

這些連古代鍊金術士也無能為力的夢想

had not been in the previous hundred thousand,

但卻都沒有在過去的千百年中發現

about stars, and all those other urgent problems they had.

關於星星，或者那些很緊迫的問題

The tragedy of that protracted stagnation

that eventually did discover all those things.

或者我們希望透過它大幅改變人類的生活

怎麼樣利用科學技術來實現我們的願望

What were people now doing for the first time

is surely the most important universal truth

Worryingly, there is no consensus about what it is.

麻煩的是，這沒有一個公認的方法

But I'll have to backtrack a little first.

但是在這之前我要回溯一點點時間

they believed that everything important, knowable,

人們認為任何事情都是重要的，可以認知的

enshrined in ancient writings, institutions,

and in some genuinely useful rules of thumb --

這些蘊藏在古代著作中、習俗中

which were, however, entrenched as dogmas,

那些被認為是不可憾動的教義與信條

So they believed that knowledge came from authorities

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