Ode to the Brain
Its amazing to consider that Im holding in my hands
【Robert Winston 英國生物學家】我手上捧著的東西妙不可言
The place where someone once felt, thought, and loved
因為它，我們才有感覺，思想和愛
For centuries, scientists have been battling to understand
千百年來，科學家一直在試圖破解
What this unappealing object is all about
大腦中隱藏的秘密
Here is this mass of jelly
【Vilayanur Ramachandran 加州大學神經科學家】看看這一團果凍狀物體
You can hold in the palm of your hands
你用雙手就可以托住它
And it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space
而它卻能思考宇宙萬物的秘密
The brain has evolved from the inside out
【Carl Sagan 著名天文學家，科普作家】大腦的進化由內至外
Its structure reflects all the stages through which it has passed
它的結構反映了進化的各個層面
Information in the form of energy Streams in simultaneously
【 Jill Bolte Taylor 美國神經科學家】信息以能量的形式奔流不息
Through all of our sensory systems
沿著我們的感官系統流淌
And then it explodes into this enormous collage
在腦中爆發，形成這一巨大的拼圖
Of what this present moment looks like
描繪此時此刻事物的外觀
What it feels like And what it sounds like
它感覺起來如何，聽起來怎樣
it explodes into this enormous collage
大腦中爆發的信息構成巨大拼圖
And in this moment we are perfect
此時此刻，我們是完美的
We are whole and we are beautiful
我們渾然天成，美麗無比
【Robert Winston】It appears rather gruesome
它長得有點噁心
Wrinkled like a walnut, and with the consistency of mushroom
鄒巴巴的像核桃，軟黏黏的像蘑菇
【Carl Sagan】What we know is encoded in cells called neurons
我們的知識凝聚在神經細胞裡
And there are something like a hundred trillion neural connections
神經連接數以百萬億記
This intricate and marvelous network of neurons has been called
構成複雜而又神奇的神經網絡
An enchanted loom
一台施了魔法的織布機
The neurons store sounds too, and snatches of music
神經細胞記錄聲音和音樂的片段
Whole orchestras play inside our heads
整個樂隊在大腦中齊鳴
20 million volumes worth of information
超過2000萬卷圖書的信息量
Is inside the heads of every one of us
儲存在每個人的大腦中
The brain is a very big place In a very small space
大腦的容量如此之大，體積如此之小
【Jill Bolte Taylor】Information in the form of energy Streams in simultaneously
信息以能量的形式奔流不息
Through all of our sensory systems
沿著我們的感官系統流淌
And then it explodes into this enormous collage
大腦中爆發的信息構成巨大拼圖
Of what this present moment looks like
描繪此時此刻事物的外觀
What it feels like And what it sounds like
它感覺起來如何，聽起來怎樣
【 Carl Sagan】No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain
我們不屈服於大腦的限制
We can change ourselves
我們可以改造自己
Think of the possibilities
思考無數的可能性
Think of your brain as a newspaper
【Bill Nye 著名科普節目主持人】大腦就像一張報紙
Think of all the information it can store
它可以儲存很多信息
But it doesnt take up too much room Because its folded
它佔的空間不大，就像報紙一樣疊在一起
We see with the eyes
【Oliver sacks 英國神經學家】我們用眼睛看世界
But we see with the brain as well
也用大腦看世界
And seeing with the brain
用大腦看世界
Is often called imagination
我們稱之為想像力
【混音合唱】
【Jill Bolte Taylor】And then it explodes into this enormous collage
在腦中爆發，形成這一巨大的拼圖
And in this moment we are perfect
此時此刻我們完美無瑕
We are whole and we are beautiful
我們渾然天成，美麗無比
【Robert Winston】It is the most mysterious part of the human body
它是人體最神秘的部分
And yet it dominates the way we live our adultlives
它支配我們的一生
It is the brain
它就是大腦