Which means that sometimes, this conscious experience is not really reflecting that reality at all.

也就是说，有的时候，有意识的体验并不一定能反应出真实情况。

For example, when I think about an apple, I can catch up a conscious experience of an apple.

举例来说，当我想一个苹果时，我会找出对它的意识经验。

Our conscious experience of food is just the tip of the iceberg of our total sensation of food.

我们对食物的有意识经历只是我们对食物感知的冰山一角。

And not just any conscious experience -- your conscious experience right here and right now.

不仅仅是任何有意识的体验——你此时此地的有意识体验。

However, over the past few years, ingenious experiments have provided compelling evidence that many animals do have a conscious experience.

然而，在过去的几年里，一些巧妙的实验提供了令人信服的证据，证明许多动物确实有意识体验。

Emotions involve physiological arousal, expressive behaviors and conscious experience.

情绪包括生理唤醒、表达行为和意识体验。

That every conscious experience that we have is governed by cells in our brain.

我们拥有的每一次有意识的体验都是由我们大脑中的细胞控制的。

We can use these conscious experiences, use this data, exploit it by adding vanilla instead of sugar to sweeten our products.

我们可以使用这些有意识的体验，这些数据，来研究加多少香草来代替糖去增加食品的甜度。

These microcircuits could explain how birds are capable of complex behaviors— like newly discovered conscious experiences.

这些微电路可以解释鸟类如何能够做出复杂的行为——比如新发现的有意识的体验。

How, then, could the flourishment of subjective conscious  experience be a metric used in providing objective truth?

那么, 主观意识体验的繁荣如何成为提供客观真理的衡量标准呢?

But as you just heard, there are many stages of neural interpretation in between the physical item and the conscious experience of it.

但正如我刚刚所说的，神经解释在实物和有意识的经验之间有很多步骤。

When we look at art, there's activation in a region called the anterior insula, which is involved in the conscious experience of emotions.

当我们看艺术品时，一个叫做前岛叶的区域会被激活，这个区域与情绪的有意识体验有关。

What is it about a physical mechanism, in this case, a neurobiological mechanism, 86 billion neurons and trillions of connections, that can generate any conscious experience?

什么是物理机制，在这种情况下，神经生物学机制，860 亿个神经元和数万亿个连接，可以产生任何有意识的体验？

Nevertheless, most scientists now feel they can say with confidence that some animals process information and express emotions in ways that are accompanied by conscious mental experience.

尽管如此，大多数科学家现在觉得他们可以自信地说，一些动物处理信息和表达情感的方式伴随着有意识的心理体验。

After all, does it seem like any one of these features, or all of them combined, comprise what William James described as the " warmth" of conscious experience?

毕竟，这些特征中的任何一个或所有这些特征的组合，是否构成了威廉·詹姆斯所描述的意识体验的“温暖”？

Put that way, it seems extremely hard, because conscious experiences seem to be the kinds of things that cannot be explained in terms of mechanisms, however complicated those mechanisms might be.

换句话说，这似乎非常困难，因为有意识的体验似乎是无法用机制来解释的事物， 无论这些机制可能多么复杂。

Everything that arises in consciousness is a perceptual prediction, and all of our conscious experiences, whether of the self or of the world, are all deeply rooted in our nature, as living machines.

意识中出现的一切都是一种感知预测， 我们所有的意识体验，无论是自我还是世界， 都深深植根于我们作为活机器的本性。

We know the brain is the source of mental life but we don't have any understanding at all about exactly how this happens, about how a physical object, a lump of meat, can give rise to conscious experience.

我们知道大脑是精神生活的源泉, 但我们完全不了解这是如何发生的, 关于一个物理物体, 一块肉, 如何产生有意识的体验。