Even if I could make everyone in the room choose Beta by the force of my brain waves, What should I then do? I should choose Alpha.
就算我能用我脑波强迫,你们选β,那我应该选什么,我应该选α
I could study law, business, even accounting if I wanted to.
我可以学习法律,商务,甚至会计,如果我想的话。
Even if I was that guy in the X-Men or the Matrix or whatever it was, who could reason his way into making people do things.
就算我是X-Men或者尼奥,我能影响到别人的推理
Because the notion of free will was that even if I was in the very same spot again, the very same situation again, I could've chosen differently.
因为自由意志的内涵就是,即使我再次处在相同的地点,相同的情况下,我也可能做出不同的选择
One of the things that we discussed was this type of imagery here where you have vertically these pillars, if you will, or we could even call--the more I sort of looked at this--sort of call them tree trunks almost.
我们讨论的问题之一是这里的这种意象,这些垂直的柱子,如果你愿意的话,我们可以称之为,我越看越觉得称之为树干比较好。
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