Modest container theories, that is, say there's a value to being alive, but it can in principle be outweighed.
保守的有价值容器理论认为,活着有一定的价值,但是按道理它可以被超越。
Well, here we're going to have, of course, more modest and more bold versions of the valuable container theory.
当然这时候出现了,较保守和较激进的有价值容器理论。
If I place my container of gas on the table here, and I come back an hour later, the pressure needs to be the same when I come back Otherwise it's not equilibrium.
如果我把装气体的容器放在桌子上,一小时以后我再回来时,气体的压强应该是不变的,否则它就不是平衡的。
People use bin packing algorithms to figure out, for example, how to load up container ships.
人么通常用装箱算法来计算这个问题,比如说怎样装载货船。
So we have a container, which is our mind.
比如,我们有一个容器,也就是我们的思想。
This is a beverage container.
这是个饮料容器。
They would bomb it, they would burn it, they would put it in this container inside water, and see how high the water temperature raises and that would give you a sense of the number of calories that it has.
研究人员会燃烧它,放入浸在水里的量热器,然后观察水温上升了多少,我们就对这种食物热量有所了解了
Well, that program was interesting because it had an inventory which was implemented in Scratch with a list which is kind of like a container that you can add things to again and again.
那个程序很有趣,它有一个用Scratch做出来的清单,还有一个貌似容器的列表,你可以不断往里面加东西。
But even in those moments when I'm drawn towards valuable container theories, it's always the modest version.
但即便是在那些时刻,即便是在我赞同有价值容器理论时,我赞同的通常是保守价值的说法。
We could call this the "fantastic valuable container theory" as opposed to the "modest valuable container theory."
我们可以称之为“理想价值容器理论“,它与“保守价值容器理论“形成对照“
We could say that what I've been presupposing up to this point " is the "neutral container theory" of the value of life.
到目前为止我阐述的前提是,生命价值的“中性容器理论。
What that means is, I've got my ideal gas in some container.
这意味着,我们把理想气体装在一个容器中。
If I've got a gas in a container, the pressure of the gas has to be the same everywhere in the container, otherwise it's not equilibrium.
如果把气体装进容器里,容器内各处气体的压强,应该是一样的,否则它就不是平衡的。
It doesn't have to be a real container to contain it It's just an imaginary boundary there.
它不必是,一个真实的容器,只是一个想象的边界。
And this is in an isolated, in an adiabatic container.
这应该是个很简单的问题,桨轮处在一个与外界隔离额绝热环境中。
And even if we accept the valuable container theory, and so we say, " "Hah, you know, being alive per se is worth something as well."
如果我们接受有价值容器理论,我们会说,“活着本身也是有价值的“
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