与摩根·弗里曼一起穿越虫洞（2010）

Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman S01E01

Part 5 April 19, 2021, 2:23 p.m.

我想再飘飘，那很酷
I want to float again. That was cool.
好吧
Okay, well.
我不是很喜欢火的部分，第二部分
I'm not too much liking the fire part, the second one,
但我不知道
but I don't know.
第一个棒极了
The first one was awesome.
在密室里，她有了一次经典的体验
She had a classic experience that takes place in the chamber.
现在想象如果她坐在基♥督♥教堂的长凳上
Now imagine what that would be
或者犹太教堂，清♥真♥寺
if she was sitting in a church pew
会发生什么
or a synagogue or a mosque
或者，在夜里躺在她身边
or, for that matter, laying by herself at night
在她的床中间，这一切发生了
in the middle of her bed, and this happened.
你能想象她会怎么标榜这现象吗？
Can you imagine how she would label it
而且这会对她的生活带来怎样的冲击？
and the impact it would have on her entire life?
我们走吧
There we go.
帕辛格博士的工作
Dr. Persinger's work
不仅极大提高了
raises the extraordinary possibility
宗教体验能被感应的可能性
not just that spiritual experiences can be induced,
而且表明，历史上某些重要和
but that some
影响重大的宗教情景
of the most intense and influential religious visions
其根源只不过是
in history may have their root
大脑神经网络的创造
in nothing more than the wiring of the human brain.
亚伯拉罕
Abraham,
摩西
Moses,
美国本土萨满法师
native American shamans --
几乎所有的宗教领袖和精神导师
almost all religious leaders and spiritual guides
都声称他们接收到了
have attested that they were struck
来自造物主的色彩鲜艳和雷鸣般的信息
by vivid and thunderous messages from the creator himself.
在历史上的宗教体验中
In the history of religious experience,
许多伟大宗教思想家的
many of the great religious thinkers
脑颞叶都有放电的能力
have had electrical ability in the temporal lobe.
路德，你知道，开创了路德派，被光引导
Luther, as you know, who started Lutheranism, was struck by lightning.
在人们人生中的决定性时刻
These are brief events that have a powerful impact on people
会有很多简短事件给他们带来强烈冲击
during those critical times of their life.
而且，真的，向科学的伟大挑战
And, really, the great challenge to science --
这激动人心的部分
and this is the exciting part --
并不在于
is not so much the fact
大脑创造了这些经历，而是究竟
that the brain's generating the experiences --
什么刺♥激♥让大脑这么干？
is what are the stimuli?
当我们施加磁场时
You've seen a few examples of the crude stimuli,
你已经见识了几种刺♥激♥因素
when we apply magnetic Fields.
但是自然刺♥激♥是怎么样的呢？
But what about natural stimuli?
人工的
What about stimuli
和被社会操纵的因素又什么样呢？
that are manufactured or manipulated by societies?
本身的化学变化如何？
What about intrinsic chemical changes?
那些我们并不了解的因素
And what about all those stimuli we don't know yet
那些能够产生人类历史上最强大体验
that can produce the most powerful experience
神之体验的因素，又如何呢？
in the history of humankind, the God experience?
几千年来
For thousands of years,
数十亿人将他们的生活
billions of humans have built their lives
建立在珍爱的信仰上
around the cherished idea
这信仰就是，造物主高高在上，看着他们
that a creator is out there looking down on them,
庇护他们
caring for them,
一个神，身兼两职，造物主和保护神
a God who is both creator and protector.
帕辛格博士的“神之盔”驱使我们考虑
Dr. Persinger's God helmet forces us to consider
一个关于人类经验的完全不同的图景
a radical reimagining of human experience.
上帝也许并未创造我们
God may not have created us.
他也许并未保护我们
He may not be protecting us.
上帝也许只是简单的存在于意识之中
God may simply be in our minds.
但是一位科学家有着更激进的观点
But one scientist has an even more radical take
关于造物主
on the creator,
他翻转了帕辛格博士的大脑理论
One that flips Dr. Persinger's theory on its head.
这一次，上帝是真实的，我们是虚构的
This time, It's god that's real and we that are imaginary.
我们的造物主可能实际上是一个宇宙计算机编码器
Our creator may actually be a cosmic computer coder,
我们可能只是一个模拟
And we might be nothing more than a simulation.
继续寻找上帝
The search for god continues.
我们会发现他隐藏在我们大脑深处？
Will we find him hidden in the deepest recesses of our brain?
或者我们在数学原理中找到他？
Or can we uncover the creator in a mathematical theory?
让我们好好瞅瞅
Let's take a closer look
所有可能性中最怪异的一种
at perhaps the strangest possibility of all.
从这里开始
We'll start here.
威尔·莱特是个造物主
Will Wright is a creator...
至少，是某个宇宙的造物主
Of one universe, at least.
重量级视频游戏“模拟人生，”
In the blockbuster hit video game "The Sims,"
这个软件天才创造了一个世界
this software genius created a world
装满了数字化人类，它们和你我差不多
filled with digital people not too different from you and me.
呃，电脑里的模拟
Well, the Sims inside the computer
只是数字化的休闲活动
really are digital recreations.
它们是人类的模拟
They're simulations of humans.
于是，基本的，我们必须向电脑描述
And so we basically have to describe to the computer
我们思想的各个方面
all the kind of overall aspects
你明白，包含大量的人性因素
that we think, you know, encompass humanity.
我认为人类非常善于
I think humans are very good
把我们的个性和他人进行置换
at displacing our identity into others.
我们称之为移情作用
We call that empathy.
于是游戏中的大量情节
And so a lot of the game is based
基于移情作用，你想虚拟人物所想
around the empathy that you're feeling with the Sims
经历虚拟人物所经历
so that what they experience basically is
同等级别的置换
what you're experiencing at one level removed.
不过考虑一下这点
But consider this.
你认为在模拟人生里，你能感受到多少移情作用
How much empathy do you think you could feel with this SIM...
能够有多真实？
And how much with this one?
过去的几十年间，我们看到
The rate of increase in computing power
电脑计算能力的增长速率
that we've seen in the past few decades
没有减缓的迹象
shows no sign of abating.
计算机虚拟现实的水平
And the level of realism of computer simulations
也水涨船高
is bound to keep pace with that.
当虚拟人物看上去真的像我们的朋友
When our Sims look as real as our friends,
那一条
won't the lines
在真实生活和虚拟生活间的界限
separating our real lives from our virtual lives
会不会模糊？
begin to blur?
计算机，游戏和模拟软件
Computers and games and simulations
是增进真实性的方法
are kind of on this path of increased reality.
在电脑图像和影片中你可以体会
You can see this in computer graphics and movies.
当我们在很微小细节的层次上
As we experience these things
体验这些的时候
at these very granular levels of detail,
再一次，这些体验，我认为
again, these experiences, I think,
开始淡化了
are starting to blur the line
真实和虚拟之间的界限
between real experiences and virtual experiences.
那么，谁能说我们已经不存在了？
Well, Who's to say we're not there already?
一个来自加州帕萨迪那市
One scientist
喷气试验室的科学家
from the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California,
相信我们也许可以
believes we might be
而且证据就在我们身边
and that the evidence could be all around us.
里奇·泰里莱参与设计了火星任务
Rich Terrile has helped design missions to Mars,
发现了土星，海王星，天王星的四个新卫星
discovered four new moons around Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus,
为一个远方的类太阳系拍照
and taken pictures of a distant solar system.
他有逻辑化的头脑，热爱技术
He has a logical mind and a love for technology.
现在，他发挥逻辑能力，试图解决一个大问题
Now he's bringing that logic to a bigger question --
造物主究竟是谁，或者是什么东西？
who or what is the creator?
对一个以神为中心的宇宙，一个例子
For a god-centered universe, one has to think,
呃，首先，神凭什么为神呢？
well, first, what are the requirements for God?
神是一种内维度的存在
God is an interdimensional being
和宇宙中的万物相通
connected with everything in the universe,
造物主负责管理宇宙
a creator responsible for the universe,
并且，在某方面
and, in some way,
如果祂愿意，祂能够改变物理定律
can change the laws of physics if he wanted to.
我认为这是作为神
I think those are pretty good requirements
所必须具备的优良品质
for what God ought to be.
泰里莱所认为的这些神应具备的品质
Terrile thinks those requirements for God,
即制定宇宙规则并随心所欲的改变
making the laws of the universe and changing things at will,