Because by hypothesis, the experience machine gets the mental states right, get the insides right.

因为根据假设，体验机器能让你获得良好的心理状态，获得正确的内在感知。

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So, if something's missing from that life, there's more to the best kind of life than just having the right mental states, than just getting the insides right.

所以，如果这种生活有所欠缺，如果最美好的生活,不仅是获得良好的心理状态，也不仅是获得正确的内在感知。

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Is it true that talking about mental states is unscientific?

谈论心理状态真的是不科学的吗？

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And what I mean by this is the behaviorists were obsessed with the idea of doing science and they felt, largely in reaction to Freud, that claims about internal mental states like desires, wishes, goals, emotions and so on, are unscientific.

我的意思是,行为主义者沉迷于“科学“的理念之中,难以自拔,他们主要针对的是弗洛依德，他们认为那些所谓的内在心理状态,如欲望，意愿，目标，情感等等，都是不科学的。

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