雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第3章:思考什麼是思考(20)

As regards the question of why we have bodies at all; why we do not or cannot live free as spirits and communicate as such, we probably could do so but there would be nothing whatever to do.

至於爲什麼我們要有身體這個問題，靈魂能不能獨立地存在着並相互產生作用，我想也許是可以的，但那樣就沒什麼事情可做了。

The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use.

靈魂需要驅使身體，並且照顧身體。

Alan could have found many of these ideas in his reading of Eddington while still at school.

艾倫在學校的時候，讀愛丁頓的書時，產生了許多類似這樣想法。

He had told Mrs Morcom that she would like The Nature of the Physical World, and this would have been because of the olive branch that Eddington held out from the throne of science towards the claims of religion.

他告訴默卡夫人他喜歡《物理世界的本質》，是因爲愛丁頓從科學寶座上，向宗教伸出了橄欖枝。

He had found a resolution of the classical problem of determinism and free will, of mind and matter, in the new quantum mechanics.

他從新興的量子理論中，看到了一座連接經典決定論和自由意識論的橋樑。

The idea that Alan said 'used to be supposed in Science' was familiar to anyone who studied applied mathematics.

任何學習應用數學的人，都熟悉艾倫所說的在過去，科學界往往認爲的那種形式。

In any school or university problem, there would always be just sufficient information supplied about some physical system to determine its entire future.

書本上的所有問題，都是有足夠的已知條件，然後通過一些物理系統，就能預測它的整個未來。