Our consciousness creates the present, just as it creates the past, from many distributed clues scattered in our mind.

我们的意识正是通过这许许多多散布在记忆中的线索创造了现在，如同它创造了过去一样。

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The breakthrough was not just being able to find or replay something from the past, but to find something in a vast hive of possibilities when only the vaguest clues are given.

这个突破不仅仅使找到或重现过去成为可能，更重要的是，当只给定最模糊的线索时，它也能够从无数的可能性中发掘出一些东西。

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And the intellectual work of archaeology, figuring out the past from clues left behind, was a great deal like detective work.

考古时的脑力工作——从遗留的蛛丝马迹中推测过去的真相——就很像侦探工作。

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