跟读练习: Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? - Maryam Alimardani - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Look at your hand.
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Look at your hand.
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How do you know it's really yours?
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It seems obvious, unless you've experienced the rubber hand illusion.
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In this experiment, a dummy hand is placed in front of you and your real hand is hidden behind a screen.
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Both are simultaneously stroked with a paint brush.
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No matter how much you remind yourself the dummy hand isn't yours, you eventually start to feel like it is, and inevitably flinch when it's threatened with a knife.
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That may just be a temporary trick, but it speaks to a larger truth: our bodies, the physical, biological parts of us, and our minds, the thinking, conscious aspects, have a complicated, tangled relationship.
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Which one primarily defines you or your self?
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Are you a physical body that only experiences thoughts and emotions as a result of biochemical interactions in the brain?
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That would be a body with a mind.
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Or is there some non-physical part of you that's pulling the strings but could live outside of your biological body?
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That would be a mind with a body.
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That takes us to an old question of whether the body and mind are two separate things.
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In a famous thought experiment, 16th-century philosopher René Descartes pointed out that even if all our physical sensations were just a hallucinatory dream, our mind and thoughts would still be there.
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That, for him, was the ultimate proof of our existence.
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And it led him to conclude that the conscious mind is something separate from the material body that forms the core of our identity.
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The notion of a non-physical consciousness echoes the belief of many religions in an immaterial soul for which the body is only a temporary shell.
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If we accept this, another problem emerges.
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How can a non-physical mind have any interaction with the physical body?
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If the mind has no shape, weight, or motion, how can it move your muscles?
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Or if we assume it can, why can your mind only move your body and not others?
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Some thinkers have found creative ways to get around this dilemma.
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For example, the French priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche claimed that when we think about reaching for a fork, it's actually god who moves our hand.
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Another priest philosopher named George Berkeley concluded that the material world is an illusion, existing only as mental perceptions.
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This question of mind versus body isn't just the domain of philosophers.
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With the development of psychology and neuroscience, scientists have weighed in, as well.
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Many modern scientists reject the idea that there's any distinction between the mind and body.
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Neuroscience suggests that our bodies, along with their physical senses, are deeply integrated with the activity in our brains to form what we call consciousness.
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From the day we're born, our mental development is formed through our body's interaction with the external world.
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Every sight, sound, and touch create new maps and representations in the brain that eventually become responsible for regulating our experience of self.
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And we have other senses, besides the typical five, such as the sense of balance and a sense of the relative location of our body parts.
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The rubber hand illusion, and similar virtual reality experiments, show that our senses can easily mislead us in our judgment of self.
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They also suggest that our bodies and external sensations are inseparable from our subjective consciousness.
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If this is true, then perhaps Descartes' experiment was mistaken from the start.
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After all, if we close our eyes in a silent room, the feeling of having a body isn't something we can just imagine away.
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This question of mind and body becomes particularly interesting at a time when we're considering future technologies, such as neural prosthetics and wearable robots that could become extended parts of our bodies.
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Or the slightly more radical idea of mind uploading, which dangles the possibility of immortal life without a body by transferring a human consciousness into a computer.
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If the body is deeply mapped in the brain, then by extending our sense of self to new wearable devices, our brains may eventually adapt to a restructured version with new sensory representations.
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Or perhaps uploading our consciousness into a computer might not even be possible unless we can also simulate a body capable of delivering physical sensations.
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The idea that our bodies are part of our consciousness and vice versa also isn't new.
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It's found extensively in Buddhist thought, as well as the writings of philosophers from Heidegger to Aristotle.
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But for now, we're still left with the open question of what exactly our self is.
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Are we a mind equipped with a physical body as Descartes suggested?
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Or a complex organism that's gained consciousness over millions of years of evolution thanks to a bigger brain and more neurons than our distant ancestors?
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Or something else entirely that no one's yet dreamt up?
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在这段视频中，马莉亚姆·阿利马尔丹尼探讨了人类身体与意识之间复杂的关系。通过引入“橡胶手幻觉”等实验，讲述了在我们感觉和意识的背后，身体与思维的交织与联系。在这个话题中，观众被引导去思考自己究竟是一个拥有思想的身体，还是一个拥有身体的思想。这种哲学性的话题不仅吸引了心理学和神经科学的关注，也为雅思口语练习提供了丰富的材料，帮助学习者更好地掌握英语表达。
日常交流中的五个常用短语
- How do you know it's really yours? - 你怎么知道这真的属于你？
- It speaks to a larger truth - 它揭示了一个更深的真相
- Interaction with the physical body - 与身体的相互作用
- Conscious mind - 意识思维
- Non-physical consciousness - 非物质意识
逐步跟读指南
为了帮助你有效地进行雅思口语练习和看YouTube学英语，可以按照以下步骤进行学习和练习：
- 观看视频 - 首先，仔细观看视频，注意马莉亚姆的语音语调和表达方式。
- 选择片段 - 从视频中挑选出一小段（约30秒），这段要包含上述的常用短语。
- 分段听写 - 将选择的片段分为若干小节，每次集中注意听一节并写出听到的内容。
- 跟读练习 - 听完小节后，尝试模仿马莉亚姆的发音和语调进行跟读。通过shadow speech和shadow speak的方式，提升你的口语流利度。
- 录音对比 - 录下自己的跟读声音，与原始视频进行比较，找到差距并加以改进。
通过不断的练习和重复，利用“shadowspeak”法，英语口语能力将得到显著提升。结合这些方法，你将不再对身体和意识的复杂关系感到陌生，而是能流利地表达自己的思考与感受。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。