TED中英官方演讲稿-BeauLotto_2009G错觉中的视觉真相.docxVIP

1.I want to start with a game. 我想以一个游戏开始今天的演讲2.And to win this game, all you have to do is see the reality thats in front of you as it really is. All right? 要赢这个游戏 你只要看清眼前的一切 一切据实而观，好吗？3.So, we have two panels here, of colored dots. 这里有两个板子 上面有些彩色圆点4.And one of those dots is the same in the two panels. Okay? 这两个板子上的圆点中有一对是相同的 清楚了吗?5.And you have to tell me which one. 你要告诉我是哪一对6.Now, narrow it down to the gray one, the green one, and, say, the orange one. 现在，将范围缩小到 灰色的，绿色的和橙色的7.So, by a show of hands -- well start with easiest one -- Show of hands: how many people think its the gray one? 大家举手示意吧，我们从最简单的开始 多少人认为是灰色的？8.Really? Okay. 真的吗？好的9.How many people think its the green one? 有多少人认为是绿色的？10.And how many people think its the orange one? 那么又有多少人认为是橙色的？11.Pretty even split. 人数都差不多12.Lets find out what the reality is. 让我们来看看真相。13.Here is the orange one. 这是橙色的。14.(Laughter) Here is the green one. （笑） 绿色的。15.And here is the gray one. 还有灰色的。16.(Laughter) So, for each of you who saw that, youre a complete realist. All right? （笑） 你们这些猜对的人是纯粹的现实主义者17.(Laughter) So, this pretty amazing, actually, isnt it? （笑） 这挺神奇的，对吧？18.Because nearly every living system has evolved the ability to detect light in one way or another. 因为几乎所有的生命系统 都演变出了对光线的感应能力19.So, for us, seeing color is one of the simplest things the brain does. 所以对我们的大脑来说，看见颜色是最简单的事情20.And yet, even at this most fundamental level, context is everything. 然而，即便是在这个最基础的阶段 背景决定一切21.What I want to talk about is not that context is everything, but why is context everything. 其实我想谈论的并不是“背景决定了一切”这件事 而是“为什么背景决定了一切”。22.Because its answering that question that tells us not only why we see what we do, but who we are as individuals, and who we are as a society. 因为这不仅回答了关于 为什么我们可以看到我们所做的疑问， 还告诉我们作为一个个体， 在社会中扮演怎样的角色23.But first, we have to ask another question, which is, What is color for? 但首先，我们要提出另外一个问题， 那就是，“颜色是用来做什么的”。24.And instead of telling