Artificial Intelligence is a new science of researching theories, methods and technologies in simulating or developing thinking process of human beings.

人工智能是研究模拟或发展人思维过论、方法和技术一门新科学。

And while these have been successful as thought experiments and successful as computer simulations, it's not yet been seen in the real world in a real-life experiment.

虽然这些在思维实验和计算机模拟方面都很成功，但它还没有在实世界中实生活中实验中被观测到。

(This would defeat the " assumption of substrate independence" , according to which minds are not dependent on biological matter.) Or perhaps all civilisations destroy themselves before getting to the simulation stage.

（这将推翻“基质独立性假设”，根据该假设，思维不依赖于生物物质。）或者也许所有文明都在进入模拟阶段前就自我毁灭了。

In Part V of his Discourse on Method, Descartes conceded that intricate machines might be constructed to simulate successfully the performance of other animals—brutes by virtue of their lack of intellect, reason, or the power of conceptual thought.

在《方法论》第五部分中，笛卡尔承认，可以建造复杂机器来成功地模拟其他动物表，而这些动物是由于缺乏智力、性或概念思维能力而成为野兽。

That's because even if it was only a matter of scanning your mind and emulating it on a computer, your tech just isn't there yet to be able to feasibly download and handle all of that information in a timely manner.

这是因为， 即使只是扫描你思维并在计算机上模拟它，你技术还无法及时下载和处所有这些信息。