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There is also the uncertainty principle, which is part of quantum mechanics, as I understand it.
在量子力學中還有測不準原理，至少我想有。
And this happens constantly in the writing.
同樣的事也時常發生在寫作中。
And there's the terrible and dreaded observer effect, in which you're looking for something,
還有一種可怕的觀者效應，當你在找尋一些事情的時候，
and you know, things are happening simultaneously, and you're looking at it in a different way,
那些同時發生的事情，你嘗試用不同角度去看它，
and you're trying to really look for the about-ness, or what is this story about.
你嘗試找出它和其他事物的關聯性，或是這個故事和什么有關。
And if you try too hard, then you will only write the about. You won't discover anything.
如果你過分強求，最后你寫下的只是“關聯”。卻什么也沒發現。
And what you were supposed to find, what you hoped to find in some serendipitous way, is no longer there.
而你應該找到的，你真正希望能找到的，在無意中，卻已經不在了。
Now, I don't want to ignore the other side of what happens in our universe, like many of our scientists have.
我并不想忽略在宇宙另一邊發生的事，像一些科學家所做的一樣。
And so, I am going to just throw in string theory here,
所以在這里我也要順便談談弦理論，
and just say that creative people are multidimensional, and there are 11 levels, I think, of anxiety.
證明創意人不僅是多維的，還有著十一種層次的焦慮。
And they all operate at the same time.
而且它們全部一起發生。
There is also a big question of ambiguity.
再來還有模棱兩可的問題。
And I would link that to something called the cosmological constant.
像是你們說的宇宙常數。
And you don't know what is operating, but something is operating there.
你不明白什么在運作，但有些事情在運作。
And ambiguity, to me, is very uncomfortable in my life, and I have it. Moral ambiguity. It is constantly there.
模棱兩可是一種非常不舒服的感覺，對我的人生來說但它仍然存在。道德的不確定性總是存在著。
And, just as an example, this is one that recently came to me.
舉例來說，最近剛發生了一件事。
It was something I read in an editorial by a woman who was talking about the war in Iraq.
在我從事編輯工作時，我讀到一個女人在描寫伊拉克戰爭時，
And she said, "Save a man from drowning, you are responsible to him for life."
她說，“救一個溺水者，你便得為他的一生負責。”
A very famous Chinese saying, she said.
一句很有名的中國諺語。
And that means because we went into Iraq, we should stay there until things were solved.
意味著既然我們進入了伊拉克，我們便應該長駐直到事情解決。
You know, maybe even 100 years. So, there was another one that I came across, and it's "saving fish from drowning."
你知道，就算要上百年。還有另一個例子就是“救溺水的游魚”。
And it's what Buddhist fishermen say, because they're not supposed to kill anything.
來自一個信仰佛教的漁夫，佛教相信人不該殺生。
And they also have to make a living, and people need to be fed.
但漁夫卻仍得謀生，養家。
So their way of rationalizing that is they are saving the fish from drowning, and unfortunately, in the process the fish die.
為了將殺生合理化，他們聲稱自己是在救溺水的魚，但魚不幸地在過程中死了。
