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This one sentence before the story started was enough to make the brain responses
故事開始前的一句話就足以決定大腦的反應，
of all the people that believed the wife was having an affair
所有相信妻子不忠的人，
be very similar in these high-order areas and different than the other group.
大腦高階區的反應非常相似，但與另一組人不同。
And if one sentence is enough to make your brain similar to people
如果一個句子足以讓你的大腦
that think like you and very different than people that think differently than you,
與持相同看法的人相似與持不同看法的人相異，
think how this effect is going to be amplified in real life,
那么想想看，在現實生活中這種效應會被放大到甚么樣的程度？
when we are all listening to the exact same news item after being exposed day after day after day to different media channels,
當我們日復一日聽著由不同媒體所報導的相同新聞，
like Fox News or The New York Times, that give us very different perspectives on reality.
例如《福斯新聞》或《紐約時報》，造成我們對事實的觀點有截然不同的看法。
So let me summarize. If everything worked as planned tonight,
因此，讓我總結一下。如果今晚一切按計劃進行，
I used my ability to vocalize sound to be coupled to your brains.
我可以用我的聲音與你的大腦產生共鳴。
And I used this coupling to transmit my brain patterns associated with my memories and ideas into your brains.
然后利用這種共鳴，把我大腦里的記憶、想法圖像傳至你的大腦。
In this, I start to reveal the hidden neural mechanism by which we communicate.
在此，我向各位揭露了我們神經溝通機制的秘密，
And we know that in the future it will enable us to improve and facilitate communication.
我們知道它可以改善我們的溝通方式。
But these studies also reveal that communication relies on a common ground.
這些研究也表明，溝通依賴共同點，
And we have to be really worried as a society if we lose this common ground and our ability to speak with people
身為社會一分子的我們必須得擔心，我們是否已失去了這種共同點，是否失去了與他人溝通的能力，
that are slightly different than us because we let a few very strong media channels take control of the mic,
因為我們放任少數的強勢媒體控制了麥克風，
and manipulate and control the way we all think.
操縱了我們的想法。
