and most, perhaps, obviously-- if you're just spending your life floating in the scientist's lab, you're not actually accomplishing anything.

显而易见-,如果你只是漂浮在科学实验室里，你实际上没有完成任何事情。

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We want a life in which we're accomplishing things, there's agency, and the life of knowing things.

我们想要充满成就的生活，生活要有中介，我们想要能获得知识的生活。

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And it feel like really this is just one of those like games the magicians play in the square where you are literally moving the cups around accomplishing nothing other than confusion - with the audience but-- which may actually be the case-- but, I argue that this is actually better.

看起来这就是一种,魔法师在广场中玩的游戏,在这个游戏中你只是逐个地移动杯子,除了让观众觉得困惑，其实什么事都没做,-但事实又是什么呢-,实际上我觉得不仅仅如此。

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So what is this play accomplishing?

那么这个场景可以说明什么呢？

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There's a benefit to me above and beyond the question of what's going on within my life-- am I loved, am I accomplishing things, ? am I having nice experiences or not?

不管我的生活里发生了什么事,我都能得到好处-,不管我是否被爱，是否有成就，或者我的经历是否愉快？

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