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The Problem of Artificial Willpower
所謂“人工意志力”的隱患
Drugs like caffeine can positively alter how we experience what we are doing.
含有咖啡因一類的藥物能夠改變我們對事物的認(rèn)知。
Taken consistently, they might help us tolerate a long-term circumstance by regularly inducing an artificial sense of interest in what we would otherwise find uninteresting.
如果持續(xù)服用，含有咖啡因的藥物能誘導(dǎo)大腦產(chǎn)生一種對原本覺得乏味的事情變得興致盎然的意念。
Absent such a drug-induced interest, we may find ourselves more disposed to alter the course our lives are taking.
假若沒有這種藥物誘導(dǎo)介質(zhì)，我們可能不愿意改變?nèi)松臍v程。
That, at least, is the worry raised in a recent paper by Torben Kjaersgaard.
至少在Torben Kjaersgaard的研究中，他充分表達(dá)了對這一現(xiàn)狀的擔(dān)憂。
His focus is on something more potent than coffee: ADHD and wakefulness disorder-drugs such as Adderall and modafinil.
不過，他研究的領(lǐng)域更加專業(yè)化，主要研究治療多動(dòng)癥和不眠癥的藥品，例如阿得拉和莫達(dá)非尼。
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