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Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals
弗兰斯·德瓦尔(Frans de Waal) : 动物的道德行为
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共鸣，合作，公平和互惠--关心别人的幸福似乎很像人类的特征。但是，弗兰斯·德瓦尔给我们展示一些令人惊讶的行为测试录像，是有关灵长类动物和别的哺乳动物的，看看有多少道德特征，是我们和这些动物都拥有的。
Frans de Waal - Primatologist
Frans de Waal studies primate social behavior -- how they fight and reconcile, share and cooperate. Full bio
Frans de Waal studies primate social behavior -- how they fight and reconcile, share and cooperate. Full bio
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I was born in Den Bosch,
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我出生于登博斯，
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where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after.
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大画家希罗尼米斯·博斯取名于此城。
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And so I've always been very fond of this painter
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我一直很喜欢这位画家
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who lived and worked in the 15th century.
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他生活和工作在15世纪。
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And what is interesting about him in relation to morality
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他与道德的关系很有趣的一点是，
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is that he lived at a time where religion's influence was waning,
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他生活的那个时代宗教的影响在衰弱，
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and he was sort of wondering, I think,
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我想，他肯定琢磨过
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what would happen with society
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社会将会发生什么事情
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if there was no religion or if there was less religion.
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如果没有宗教，或有少一些宗教。
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And so he painted this famous painting, "The Garden of Earthly Delights,"
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所以，他画了著名的《俗世乐土》，
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which some have interpreted
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有人诠释为
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as being humanity before the Fall,
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那是人类堕落前的人性，
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or being humanity without any Fall at all.
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或者说人性本就是这样，谈不上任何堕落
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And so it makes you wonder,
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这会让人惊奇，
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what would happen if we hadn't tasted the fruit of knowledge, so to speak,
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如果我们没有尝过智慧树上的果子会怎么样，
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and what kind of morality would we have?
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也就是说，我们的道德会是什么样呢？
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Much later, as a student,
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很久以后，我还是个学生的时候，
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I went to a very different garden,
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去过一个与众不同的花园，
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a zoological garden in Arnhem
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是在阿纳姆一个动物花园，
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where we keep chimpanzees.
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在那里我们饲养着大猩猩。
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This is me at an early age with a baby chimpanzee.
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这就是我年轻时抱着一头小猩猩。
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
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And I discovered there
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在那我发现
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that the chimpanzees are very power hungry and wrote a book about it.
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黑猩猩权利欲很强，我还写了一本书。
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And at that time the focus in a lot of animal research
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当时大多数的动物研究
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was on aggression and competition.
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都集中在动物的攻击性和竞争性。
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I painted a whole picture of the animal kingdom,
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我描述了在动物王国里，
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and humanity included,
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包括人类，
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was that deep down we are competitors,
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本质上，我们是竞争者，
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we are aggressive,
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我们也有攻击性，
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we're all out for our own profit basically.
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全是出于我们自己的利益。
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This is the launch of my book.
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我的书就这样出版了。
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I'm not sure how well the chimpanzees read it,
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我不知道这些黑猩猩们读懂多少，
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but they surely seemed interested in the book.
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他们看上去对这本书很感兴趣。
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Now in the process
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在做这些
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of doing all this work on power and dominance
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研究权利，统治
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and aggression and so on,
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和侵犯等等的过程中，
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I discovered that chimpanzees reconcile after fights.
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我发现黑猩猩们争斗之后会和解。
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And so what you see here is two males who have had a fight.
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这里你看到的是两只雄猩猩打架之后。
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They ended up in a tree, and one of them holds out a hand to the other.
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他们爬上树，其中的一只伸出手给另一只。
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And about a second after I took the picture, they came together in the fork of the tree
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我刚拍完这张照片，他们就跳到一棵树枝上，
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and they kissed and embraced each other.
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抱在一起亲吻并且拥抱对方呢。
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Now this is very interesting
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这真的是很有趣，
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because at the time everything was about competition and aggression,
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因为当时的描述猩猩的很多事，都是关于竞争和攻击的，
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and so it wouldn't make any sense.
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那么这有点不合常理。
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The only thing that matters is that you win or that you lose.
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唯一要紧的是你赢了或输了。
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But why would you reconcile after a fight?
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但为什么打完架再和解呢？
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That doesn't make any sense.
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没道理的嘛。
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This is the way bonobos do it. Bonobos do everything with sex.
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这是倭黑猩猩的做法。他们用性交来解决问题。
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And so they also reconcile with sex.
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他们也用性交来和解。
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But the principle is exactly the same.
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但规律是相同的。
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The principle is that you have
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规律便是你有一段
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a valuable relationship
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珍贵的关系
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that is damaged by conflict,
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往往被冲突破坏，
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so you need to do something about it.
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所以需要想办法来解决。
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So my whole picture of the animal kingdom,
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所以，当时我对整个动物王国的看法。
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and including humans also,
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也包括人类
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started to change at that time.
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开始改变。
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So we have this image
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我们有这样的印象，
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in political science, economics, the humanities,
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从政治科学，经济学，人文学，
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philosophy for that matter,
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和哲学来讲，
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that man is a wolf to man.
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人对人来说，像一头狼似的。
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And so deep down our nature's actually nasty.
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所以从根本上来说，我们的本性是凶残的。
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I think it's a very unfair image for the wolf.
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我觉得这对于狼来说是不公平的。
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The wolf is, after all,
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不管怎么说，
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a very cooperative animal.
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狼是一种很有合作精神的动物。
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And that's why many of you have a dog at home,
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这就是为什么很多人在家里养狗，
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which has all these characteristics also.
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狗也拥有这些特征。
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And it's really unfair to humanity,
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对人类来说也是不公平的，
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because humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic
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因为人类实际上比公认的评价
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than given credit for.
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更会合作和有感情。
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So I started getting interested in those issues
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所以我开始对这些课题感兴趣
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and studying that in other animals.
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并在其它动物身上做研究。
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So these are the pillars of morality.
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这些就是道德的支柱。
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If you ask anyone, "What is morality based on?"
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如果你问一个人，“道德从何而来？”
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these are the two factors that always come out.
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通常总会有两个因素。
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One is reciprocity,
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一个是互惠
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and associated with it is a sense of justice and a sense of fairness.
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这与正义感和公正感有关系。
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And the other one is empathy and compassion.
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另一个是共鸣和怜悯。
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And human morality is more than this,
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人类道德远不止此，
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but if you would remove these two pillars,
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但是如果你把这两条拿走，
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there would be not much remaining I think.
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我觉得剩下的就不多了。
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And so they're absolutely essential.
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所以，它们是绝对必要的。
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So let me give you a few examples here.
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这里来举几个例子。
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This is a very old video from the Yerkes Primate Center
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这是耶基斯灵长类研究中心拍的很旧的录像，
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where they train chimpanzees to cooperate.
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他们在那里训练黑猩猩去合作。
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So this is already about a hundred years ago
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我们做合作方面的实验
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that we were doing experiments on cooperation.
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也有百年历史了。
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What you have here is two young chimpanzees who have a box,
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这里我们看到的是两只年幼的黑猩猩，这里有一个盒子，
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and the box is too heavy for one chimp to pull in.
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盒子太重，一只猩猩拖不动。
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And of course, there's food on the box.
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当然喽，盒子上面有食物。
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Otherwise they wouldn't be pulling so hard.
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不然他们也不会卖力来拖。
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And so they're bringing in the box.
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盒子被拿过来了。
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And you can see that they're synchronized.
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你看，他们同时在拖。
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You can see that they work together, they pull at the same moment.
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他们一起工作，同一个时刻拖这个盒子
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It's already a big advance over many other animals
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这已经比那些不会这样做的动物
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who wouldn't be able to do that.
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高级了很多。
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And now you're going to get a more interesting picture,
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接下来的画面更有趣，
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because now one of the two chimps has been fed.
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因为这两只的猩猩中，有一只已经吃过东西了。
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So one of the two is not really interested
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所以说，其中一只对这个任务
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in the task anymore.
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是不感什么兴趣的。
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
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(Laughter)
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(笑)
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(Laughter)
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（笑)
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Now look at what happens at the very end of this.
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现在来看看最后的结局是什么。
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
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He takes basically everything.
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他把所有的都吃光了。
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
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So there are two interesting parts about this.
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这里有两点很有趣。
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One is that the chimp on the right
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第一点是，右边的这只猩猩
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has a full understanding he needs the partner --
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清楚地知道他需要搭档--
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so a full understanding of the need for cooperation.
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完全理解需要合作。
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The second one is that the partner is willing to work
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第二点是，它的搭档即使自己对食物不感兴趣，
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even though he's not interested in the food.
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但还愿意帮忙。
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Why would that be? Well that probably has to do with reciprocity.
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为什么会这样呢？他们这样做可能是出于互惠。
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There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals
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实际上也有很多的证据证明，
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that they return favors.
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灵长类和别的动物都会报恩。
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So he will get a return favor
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所以，有朝一日
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at some point in the future.
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他会得到报恩。
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And so that's how this all operates.
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所以这是他们的运作方式。
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We do the same task with elephants.
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我们也在大象的身上做了同样的实验。
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Now with elephants, it's very dangerous to work with elephants.
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说起大象，跟它们工作也挺危险的。
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Another problem with elephants
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大象实验的另一个问题是，
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is that you cannot make an apparatus
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很难找到一个
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that is too heavy for a single elephant.
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对大象来说太重的器具。
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Now you can probably make it,
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现在，你能做到的，
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but it's going to be a pretty flimsy apparatus I think.
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但是，是亿个比较脆弱的器具。
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And so what we did in that case --
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我们还是做到了--
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we do these studies in Thailand for Josh Plotnik --
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我们在泰国为乔舒亚·帕劳特尼克（Josh Plotnik)
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is we have an apparatus around which there is a rope, a single rope.
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做了些研究--我们用的工具就是单单的一根绳子。
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And if you pull on this side of the rope,
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如果你拉着绳子的这头，
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the rope disappears on the other side.
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那头就看不见了。
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So two elephants need to pick it up at exactly the same time and pull.
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两头大象必须同时捡起绳子同时拉。
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Otherwise nothing is going to happen
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不然的话，绳子一头不见了，
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and the rope disappears.
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什么也做不成。
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And the first tape you're going to see
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第一个录像上你看到的
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is two elephants who are released together
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是两头大象一起被带到
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arrive at the apparatus.
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器具这里。
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The apparatus is on the left with food on it.
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工具放在左边，上面放着食物。
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And so they come together, they arrive together,
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所以，他们要一起来，同时到，
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they pick it up together and they pull together.
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一起拿起绳子，一起拉。
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So it's actually fairly simple for them.
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这对他们来说很简单。
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There they are.
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他们过来了。
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And so that's how they bring it in.
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他们就这样拉过来。
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But now we're going to make it more difficult.
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现在我们来加点难度。
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Because the whole purpose of this experiment
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因为这个实验的目的
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is to see how well they understand cooperation.
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是看他们如何理解合作。
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Do they understand that as well as the chimps, for example?
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譬如，他们会不会像黑猩猩一样来理解合作呢？
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And so what we do in the next step
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我们下一步做的是
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is we release one elephant before the other,
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把一头象先放出来，
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and that elephant needs to be smart enough
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这家伙必须很聪明
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to stay there and wait and not pull at the rope --
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呆在那里等着，不能拉绳子--
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because if he pulls at the rope, it disappears and the whole test is over.
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因为如果他一拉，绳子那头不见了，这个实验也就结束了。
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Now this elephant does something illegal
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这头大象做了点不法的事，
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that we did not teach it.
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不是我们教的。
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But it shows the understanding that he has,
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他看来有些理解，
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because he puts his big foot on the rope,
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他把大脚踩在绳子上，
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stands on the rope and waits there for the other,
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站在那里等着另外一头大象，
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and then the other is going to do all the work for him.
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另一头将尽全力来帮他。
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So it's what we call freeloading.
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我们称之为不劳而获。
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
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But it shows the intelligence that the elephants have.
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这也看出大象的聪明才智。
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They develop several of these alternative techniques
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他们发展了几种可供选择的技术，
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that we did not approve of necessarily.
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我们不必要都赞成。
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So the other elephant is now coming
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看，另一头大象过来了，
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and is going to pull it in.
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要去拉绳子。
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Now look at the other. The other doesn't forget to eat, of course.
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看看另一头。它可没忘记吃。
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
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This was the cooperation, reciprocity part.
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这是合作互惠的部分。
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Now something on empathy.
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再来看一下同感共鸣。
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Empathy is my main topic at the moment of research.
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共鸣是研究的主要课题。
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And empathy has sort of two qualities.
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共鸣包含两种品质。
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One is the understanding part of it. This is just a regular definition:
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一种是理解部分。这只是个普通定义：
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the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
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理解和分享对方感受的能力。
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And the emotional part.
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另一种是情绪部分。
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And so empathy has basically two channels.
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所以，共鸣有两个渠道。
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One is the body channel.
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一个是身体渠道。
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If you talk with a sad person,
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如果你跟一位悲伤的人交谈，
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you're going to adopt a sad expression and a sad posture,
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在你还没感觉悲伤的时候，
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and before you know it you feel sad.
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你就在接受它的伤感和态度。
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And that's sort of the body channel of emotional empathy,
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这就是一种情绪共鸣的身体渠道，
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which many animals have.
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很多动物都有的。
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Your average dog has that also.
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普通的小狗都有的。
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That's actually why people keep mammals in the home
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这就是为什么人们喜欢在家里养哺乳动物，
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and not turtles or snakes or something like that
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而不是乌龟，蛇
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who don't have that kind of empathy.
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或没有感情表露的动物的原因了。
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And then there's a cognitive channel,
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再一个就是认知渠道，
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which is more that you can take the perspective of somebody else.
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这个渠道更多的是你能接受别人的看法。
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And that's more limited.
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这也有更多的限制。
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There's few animals -- I think elephants and apes can do that kind of thing --
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有很少的动物--大象和猿类可以做得--
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but there are very few animals who can do that.
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但能做得的动物寥寥无几。
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So synchronization,
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所以说，
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which is part of that whole empathy mechanism
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同步是整个共鸣体系的一部分，
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is a very old one in the animal kingdom.
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这动物王国里也有历史了
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And in humans, of course, we can study that
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对人类呢，我们能够通过
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with yawn contagion.
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打哈欠传染来研究。
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Humans yawn when others yawn.
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当一个人打哈欠时，其他人也会跟着打
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And it's related to empathy.
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这就跟共鸣有关。
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It activates the same areas in the brain.
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它可以激活大脑的相同区域。
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Also, we know that people who have a lot of yawn contagion
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我们对打哈欠传染
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are highly empathic.
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有很高的共识。
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People who have problems with empathy, such as autistic children,
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对那些有共鸣障碍的人，比如患自闭症的孩子，
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they don't have yawn contagion.
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他们不会有打哈欠传染。
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So it is connected.
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所以，它是有关联的。
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And we study that in our chimpanzees by presenting them with an animated head.
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我们通过给黑猩猩看一幅动画头像来研究它们。
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So that's what you see on the upper-left,
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现在看到的左上角是
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an animated head that yawns.
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一幅动画头像在打哈欠。
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And there's a chimpanzee watching,
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一头黑猩猩在看着，
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an actual real chimpanzee watching a computer screen
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这头真的黑猩猩看着
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on which we play these animations.
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我们在电脑屏幕上放的动画。
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
09:37
So yawn contagion
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打哈欠传染
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that you're probably all familiar with --
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大家都很熟悉--
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and maybe you're going to start yawning soon now --
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可能你马上也要打哈欠了--
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is something that we share with other animals.
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这一点我们和动物是一样的。
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And that's related to that whole body channel of synchronization
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这就联系到我们身体的同步渠道，
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that underlies empathy
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其中蕴藏着共鸣，
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and that is universal in the mammals basically.
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这基本是哺乳动物的普遍性。
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Now we also study more complex expressions. This is consolation.
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现在我们也研究更复杂的表达方式。这是个安慰。
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This is a male chimpanzee who has lost a fight and he's screaming,
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这头雄猩猩吃了败仗在大喊大叫，
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and a juvenile comes over and puts an arm around him
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一头小猩猩过来抱着他，
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and calms him down.
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使他安静下来。
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That's consolation. It's very similar to human consolation.
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这就是安慰。跟人类安慰很像的。
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And consolation behavior,
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这种安慰行为
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it's empathy driven.
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就是来自共鸣。
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Actually the way to study empathy in human children
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事实上，研究人类儿童的共鸣的方法
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is to instruct a family member to act distressed,
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是让一名家人假装苦恼，
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and then they see what young children do.
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然后看看孩子们会怎样做。
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And so it is related to empathy,
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这与共鸣有关，
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and that's the kind of expressions we look at.
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我们看到的表情是这样。
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We also recently published an experiment you may have heard about.
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我们最近也发表了一项实验，你们可能也听说过了。
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It's on altruism and chimpanzees
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是有关利他主义和黑猩猩的，
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where the question is, do chimpanzees care
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问题是黑猩猩
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about the welfare of somebody else?
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关心别人的幸福吗?
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And for decades it had been assumed
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几十年来人们一直以为
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that only humans can do that,
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只有人类能做到，
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that only humans worry about the welfare of somebody else.
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只有人类才关心他人的幸福。
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Now we did a very simple experiment.
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我们做了一个非常简单的实验。
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We do that on chimpanzees that live in Lawrenceville,
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在劳伦斯维尔德野的
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in the field station of Yerkes.
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耶基斯野外观测站的黑猩猩们身上做的。
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And so that's how they live.
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这是它们的生活。
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And we call them into a room and do experiments with them.
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我们把它们叫到一个房间，然后给它们做实验。
10:54
In this case, we put two chimpanzees side-by-side.
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在这个实验中，我们让两只黑猩猩在并排的房间，
10:56
and one has a bucket full of tokens, and the tokens have different meanings.
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一只有满满一桶的代用币，这些代用币有着不同的意思。
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One kind of token feeds only the partner who chooses,
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一种只能给选定的伙伴，
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the other one feeds both of them.
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另一种是两者都给。
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So this is a study we did with Vicky Horner.
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这个研究是我们和维奇·霍纳尔做的。
11:08
And here you have the two color tokens.
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这里有两种颜色的代用币。
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So they have a whole bucket full of them.
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他们有满满一桶。
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And they have to pick one of the two colors.
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他们必须从两种颜色里选一种。
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You will see how that goes.
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让我们来看看吧。
11:18
So if this chimp makes the selfish choice,
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如果这头猩猩选了红色的，
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which is the red token in this case,
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这个是代表自私的，
11:24
he needs to give it to us.
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他就得把它交给我们。
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So we pick it up, we put it on a table where there's two food rewards,
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我们就会拿起它，放在桌子上，桌上有两种食物奖励，
11:29
but in this case only the one on the right gets food.
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但如果他选了红色，右边的那头得到了食物。
11:32
The one on the left walks away because she knows already.
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左边的那头已经知道了，所以她走开了。
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that this is not a good test for her.
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这对她来说不太好。
11:37
Then the next one is the pro-social token.
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下一个就是“利他”代用币。
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So the one who makes the choices -- that's the interesting part here --
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做选择的这个-- 有趣的部分在这--
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for the one who makes the choices,
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对做选择的这位来说，
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it doesn't really matter.
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并不重要。
11:46
So she gives us now a pro-social token and both chimps get fed.
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她给了我们一枚“利他”的代用币，两者都得到了吃的。
11:49
So the one who makes the choices always gets a reward.
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所以，做选择的这个总得到奖赏。
11:52
So it doesn't matter whatsoever.
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没有任何关系的。
11:54
And she should actually be choosing blindly.
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她只是盲目地选择而已。
11:56
But what we find
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但是，我们发现
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is that they prefer the pro-social token.
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他们都比较喜欢“利他”的代用币。
12:00
So this is the 50 percent line that's the random expectation.
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这是随即可能的50%分界线。
12:03
And especially if the partner draws attention to itself, they choose more.
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尤其是，如果这位同伴注意到自己，他们就选的更多。
12:06
And if the partner puts pressure on them --
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如果这位同伴对他们施压--
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so if the partner starts spitting water and intimidating them --
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如果这位同伴开始吐水和威胁他们--
12:12
then the choices go down.
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选择就下降。
12:15
It's as if they're saying,
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就好像他们在说,
12:17
"If you're not behaving, I'm not going to be pro-social today."
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“你如果表现不好，我就不会做“利他”的选择。”
12:19
And this is what happens without a partner,
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这里是没有同伴的情形，
12:21
when there's no partner sitting there.
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没有同伴坐在那儿。
12:23
And so we found that the chimpanzees do care
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所以我们发现黑猩猩们
12:25
about the well-being of somebody else --
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真的关心他人的生活--
12:27
especially, these are other members of their own group.
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特别是他们是同一个群体。
12:30
So the final experiment that I want to mention to you
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我想提一下，最后的一个实验
12:33
is our fairness study.
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是公正研究。
12:35
And so this became a very famous study.
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这也是一个很有名的研究。
12:38
And there's now many more,
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现在有更多的了，
12:40
because after we did this about 10 years ago,
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因为十年前我们做了这个后，
12:42
it became very well known.
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它就出名了。
12:44
And we did that originally with capuchin monkeys.
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我们最初做实验的是卷尾猴。
12:46
And I'm going to show you the first experiment that we did.
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我会给你看一下我们的第一个实验。
12:49
It has now been done with dogs and with birds
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现在都已经有对狗，
12:52
and with chimpanzees.
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鸟和黑猩猩的实验了。
12:54
But with Sarah Brosnan we started out with capuchin monkeys.
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最开始，我们是和萨拉·布鲁斯南在卷尾猴身上做的。
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So what we did
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我们让
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is we put two capuchin monkeys side-by-side.
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两只卷尾猴放在相邻的房间。
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Again, these animals, they live in a group, they know each other.
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他们这些动物，住在一个群体，都互相认识。
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We take them out of the group, put them in a test chamber.
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我们把他们分离出来，放在一个实验房间。
13:07
And there's a very simple task
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给他们准备
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that they need to do.
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很简单的任务。
13:11
And if you give both of them cucumber for the task,
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如果我们给他们两个黄瓜，
13:14
the two monkeys side-by-side,
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他们肩并肩
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they're perfectly willing to do this 25 times in a row.
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会一直重复25次。
13:18
So cucumber, even though it's only really water in my opinion,
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黄瓜对我来说只是水分，
13:22
but cucumber is perfectly fine for them.
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但对他们来说非常好。
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Now if you give the partner grapes --
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如果你给这个同伴葡萄--
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the food preferences of my capuchin monkeys
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这是我的卷尾猴的特爱，
13:30
correspond exactly with the prices in the supermarket --
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符合超市里的价钱--
13:33
and so if you give them grapes -- it's a far better food --
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所以，如果你给它们葡萄--这是它们喜欢的食物--
13:36
then you create inequity between them.
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那你就在制造不平等。
13:39
So that's the experiment we did.
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我们的实验就是这样做的。
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Recently we videotaped it with new monkeys who'd never done the task,
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我们最近又拍摄了一些没做过这个任务的猴子，
13:44
thinking that maybe they would have a stronger reaction,
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我们认为他们的反映更强烈，
13:46
and that turned out to be right.
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果然如此。
13:48
The one on the left is the monkey who gets cucumber.
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左边的这只猴子拿到了黄瓜。
13:50
The one on the right is the one who gets grapes.
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右边的这只得到了葡萄。
13:53
The one who gets cucumber,
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得到黄瓜的这只猴子，
13:55
note that the first piece of cucumber is perfectly fine.
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注意到第一片黄瓜很好。
13:57
The first piece she eats.
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她就吃掉了第一片。
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Then she sees the other one getting grape, and you will see what happens.
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接着她看到另一只猴子得到了葡萄，好戏在后头。
14:03
So she gives a rock to us. That's the task.
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她朝我们扔石头。那就是任务。
14:06
And we give her a piece of cucumber and she eats it.
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我们给她一片黄瓜，她吃掉了。
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The other one needs to give a rock to us.
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另一只也朝我们扔石头。
14:12
And that's what she does.
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她也做了。
14:15
And she gets a grape and she eats it.
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她得到一颗葡萄，又吃掉了。
14:18
The other one sees that.
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另一只看在眼里。
14:20
She gives a rock to us now,
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她又朝我们扔石头，
14:22
gets, again, cucumber.
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又得到了黄瓜。
14:27
(Laughter)
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（笑）
14:42
She tests a rock now against the wall.
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她在墙上敲她的石头。
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She needs to give it to us.
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她应该把它给我们。
14:47
And she gets cucumber again.
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她又得到了黄瓜。
14:52
(Laughter)
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（笑）
14:58
So this is basically the Wall Street protest that you see here.
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你看到的是就像是华尔街抗议活动。
15:02
(Laughter)
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（笑）
15:05
(Applause)
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（鼓掌）
15:08
Let me tell you --
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听我说--
15:10
I still have two minutes left, let me tell you a funny story about this.
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我还有两分钟，让我来讲个好笑的故事。
15:12
This study became very famous
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这个研究很有名气，
15:14
and we got a lot of comments,
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我们收到很多评论，
15:16
especially anthropologists, economists,
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尤其是人类学家，经济学家
15:18
philosophers.
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和哲学家。
15:20
They didn't like this at all.
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他们一点也不喜欢这个。
15:22
Because they had decided in their minds, I believe,
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因为他们已经在心里打定主意，
15:25
that fairness is a very complex issue
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公正是个很复杂的问题，
15:27
and that animals cannot have it.
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动物是不能够有的。
15:29
And so one philosopher even wrote us
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并且有一位哲学家写信给我们说，
15:31
that it was impossible that monkeys had a sense of fairness
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猴子不可能有公正感，
15:34
because fairness was invented during the French Revolution.
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因为公正是在法国大革命中才被发明的。
15:37
(Laughter)
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（笑）
15:39
Now another one wrote a whole chapter
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还有一位给我们写了一大段
15:42
saying that he would believe it had something to do with fairness
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说如果那只得到葡萄的猴子拒绝葡萄，
15:46
if the one who got grapes would refuse the grapes.
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他才会相信这跟公正有关。
15:48
Now the funny thing is that Sarah Brosnan,
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滑稽的是，萨拉·布鲁斯南
15:50
who's been doing this with chimpanzees,
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在做这个实验期间，
15:52
had a couple of combinations of chimpanzees
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有几次黑猩猩的组合，
15:54
where, indeed, the one who would get the grape would refuse the grape
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实际上，其中一只猴子宁愿不接受葡萄
15:57
until the other guy also got a grape.
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直到它的伙伴拿到了他才接受。
15:59
So we're getting very close to the human sense of fairness.
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我们离人类的公正很近了。
16:02
And I think philosophers need to rethink their philosophy for awhile.
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我觉得哲学家们需要重新思考他们的哲学。
16:06
So let me summarize.
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我总结一下。
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I believe there's an evolved morality.
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我相信有一种进化来的道德。
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I think morality is much more than what I've been talking about,
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道德已远远超过我一直讨论的，
16:12
but it would be impossible without these ingredients
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但如果没有别的灵长类的元素
16:15
that we find in other primates,
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也是不可能的，
16:17
which are empathy and consolation,
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正是共鸣，安慰，
16:19
pro-social tendencies and reciprocity and a sense of fairness.
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亲社会倾向，互惠以及公正感。
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And so we work on these particular issues
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我们也致力于这个特殊的课题，
16:25
to see if we can create a morality from the bottom up, so to speak,
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看看我们是否能从头开始创造一种道德，
16:28
without necessarily God and religion involved,
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也就是说不涉及神圣和宗教，
16:30
and to see how we can get to an evolved morality.
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来看看我们如何去进化道德。
16:33
And I thank you for your attention.
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谢谢大家。
16:36
(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Frans de Waal - PrimatologistFrans de Waal studies primate social behavior -- how they fight and reconcile, share and cooperate.
Why you should listen
Dutch/American biologist and ethologist Frans de Waal draws parallels between primate and human behavior, from peacemaking and morality to culture. Looking at human society through the lens of animal behavior, de Waal's first book, Chimpanzee Politics (1982), compares the schmoozing and scheming of chimpanzees involved in power struggles with that of human politicians. Named one of the 100 Most Influential People Today by Time Magazine, de Waal has written hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles, and his popular books have been translated in over 20 languages. He is a professor in Emory University's psychology department and Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, in Atlanta. His next book is on animal and human emotions, entitled Mama's Last Hug (Norton, 2019).
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