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Sometimes we get letters here at Moment of Science asking whether psychics are for real.
我們的科學一刻欄目有時會收到觀眾來信詢問那些精神能量是否真的存在。
Well,despite the TV. shows,there isn't any scientific evidence that psychic powers,such as mind-reading,actually exist.
好吧,盡管電視節目有過播放，但沒有任何科學證據表明諸如讀心術等的精神力量實際上存在。
That doesn't prove they don't exist-just that,so far,there's no reason to think they do.
也不能證明它們不存在,到目前為止,沒有理由認為這種精神能量的確存在。
Still,the famous scientist and popular writer Isaac Asimov made an interesting observation about mind-reading once.
不過,著名科學家及流行作家艾薩克?阿西莫夫對于讀心術做過一個有趣的觀察。
Many people across the centuries have claimed they could read other people's minds.
在過去的幾個世紀里,許多人聲稱他們可以讀懂別人的內心。
If this is true,Asimov points out,then mind-reading would be a fact of nature.
如果的確屬實,阿西莫夫指出,那讀心術將成為一種與生俱來的能力。
It would be one of things that the human brain can do,just like dreaming or maintaining your body temperature.
這將是一個人類大腦可以做的事情,就像做夢或維持你的體溫一樣。
That would mean that mind-reading would have to be the result of evolution.
這意味著讀心術是進化的結果。
