I don't know how clear-cut these experiments are but there are experiments that have been done on the timing of consciousness
我不知道这些实验有多明确 但是有过关于意识时间的实验
and they seem to lead to a very odd picture which doesn't even quite make consistent sense.
它们似乎都会得到一幅非常奇怪的图景 而这图像也没有什么确切的意义
Whether refinement of these experiments might get rid of this kind of anomaly I'm not sure
我不确定这些实验的精细 是否能摆脱这种异常
but it does look a little as though there is something very odd about consciousness
但是它看起来有点像 与意识有关的奇怪的东西
and somehow almost as though the future affects the past in some way
还像是未来在某种程度上影响了过去
over a very tiny, limited scale, but something maybe of the order of a reasonable fraction of a second.
这种影响只在非常小且有限的尺度上 或者是什么只在一秒内有序的东西
And there's no reason to believe that one's conscious experience shouldn't be part of somebody else's shouldn't be part of somebody else's
没理由相信一个人的意识体验 在另一些阶段不会成为 别人意识的一部分
I don't know if it's fair to say what happens after one dies but it's a plausible picture
我不知道这是否可信 说一个人死后 他可能会成为另一个人
that you could be somebody else and that somebody else could be somebody that lived in the past,not in the future.
但这貌似是很有可能的 并且某人可能是活在过去的某个人 而不是未来的
Even if there is only one possible unified theory that is just a set of rules and equations
即使只有一种可能的大统一理论 即一套准则和方程
what is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
那是什么扰乱了这些等式 制造出一个它们所描绘的宇宙呢
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
为什么宇宙要自寻烦恼
Is the unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence?
是否是大统一理论如此势不可挡 以至于引起其自身存在的问题
Or does it need a creator?And, if so who created him?
或许 他需要一个创造者 如果是这样 是谁创造了创造者