First, the researchers enlisted a group of about 50 people, who thought they were taking part in an experiment on size perception.

首先，研究员征募了一群大约50个人，他们[她们]认为他们正在大小知觉上参加实验。

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This theory is the basis of a famous thought experiment known as the twin paradox, in which a twin sibling who travels on a fast-moving rocket ship would return home younger than the other twin.

这个理论基础来自于著名试验猜想，双胞胎悖论：乘坐高速火箭飞船旅行的双胞胎哥哥（或弟弟），回到家后要比他的弟弟（或哥哥）年轻。

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And what's amazing about the argument is that it works on the basis of a pure thought experiment.

这个论证令人吃惊的就是，它完全只靠思想实验。

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And what's amazing about the argument is that it works on the basis of a pure thought experiment.

这个论证令人吃惊的就是,它完全只靠思想实验

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And so, Descartes' attempt to establish the distinctness of the mind, the immateriality of the mind, on the basis of this Cartesian thought experiment, I think that's unsuccessful.

所以,笛卡尔试图,用他的卡式思想实验来证明,心灵的独立存在性,和非物质性,我认为这种尝试是失败的

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You can't think that it really could make so much difference in the real world how prices and quantitie and welfare, and profit is going to work out depending on some thought experiment about how I think about my strategy set.

你们很难想象在现实世界里,价格 产量 福利和利润会因为,不同策略集合设定下的思想实验,而产生如此巨大的变化

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