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Charles Bonnet said, 250 years ago -- he wondered how, thinking these hallucinations, how, as he put it, the theater of the mind could be generated by the machinery of the brain.
查爾斯·邦納在250年前在對這些幻覺現象的觀察的促使下，思考了這個問題，心智的戲劇性是如何產生于大腦運作的呢？
Now, 250 years later, I think we're beginning to glimpse how this is done. Thanks very much.
250年后的今天，我想我們已經能夠開始領悟這個精妙的過程，非常感謝。
Chris Anderson: That was superb. Thank you so much. You speak about these things with so much insight and empathy for your patients.
克里斯·安德森：非常精彩，非常感謝你，你說得非常精到，也很能理解你的病人。
Have you yourself experienced any of the syndromes you write about?
你自己有沒有過這些癥狀呢？
Oliver Sacks: I was afraid you'd ask that. Well, yeah, a lot of them.
奧利弗·薩克斯：我挺怕你問這個的，嗯，有，很大一部分。
And actually I'm a little visually impaired myself. I'm blind in one eye, and not terribly good in the other.
事實上我自己也有一定的視力受損，我的一只眼睛是看不到的，另一只視力也不大好。
And I see the geometrical hallucinations. But they stop there.
我看到過幾何幻覺，不過最多也就這個程度了。
CA: And they don't disturb you? Because you understand what's doing it, it doesn't make you worried?
安德森：它們會不會讓你感到很不安？或者說是不是因為你了解這一現象而沒這么擔心？
OS: Well they don't disturb me any more than my tinnitus, which I ignore.
薩克斯：耳鳴讓我煩心得多，耳鳴我也是聽而不聞。
They occasionally interest me, and I have many pictures of them in my notebooks.
不過偶爾我會對自己的幻覺很感興趣，我還把它們畫在了筆記本里。
I've gone and had an fMRI myself, to see how my visual cortex is taking over.
我自己就曾做過功能性磁共振成像，看看我的視覺皮層在造什么反。
And when I see all these hexagons and complex things, which I also have, in visual migraine, I wonder whether everyone sees things like this,
我看到六邊形的幻覺，或更復雜的幻覺，往往伴隨著偏頭痛，那是我就會想是不是別人也會有這樣的幻覺。
and whether things like cave art or ornamental art may have been derived from them a bit.
洞穴壁畫和裝飾藝術是不是也取材于這種幻覺。
CA: That was an utterly, utterly fascinating talk. Thank you so much for sharing.
安德森：你今天的演講非常非常精彩，感謝你的分享。
OS: Thank you. Thank you.
薩克斯：謝謝，謝謝。
