TED演讲:如何成为生化人并扩展人类潜能(2)（在线收听）

At MIT, we're thinking about NeuroEmbodied Design.

在麻省理工学院，我们正在考虑神经体现设计。

In this design process, the designer designs human flesh and bone, the biological body itself,

在这个设计过程中，设计者们设计人体肌肉和骨骼、生物体本身，

along with synthetics to enhance the bidirectional communication between the nervous system and the built world.

连同合成物们一起，共同增进神经系统与所构建世界之间的双向沟通。

NeuroEmbodied Design is a methodology to create cyborg function.

神经体现设计是一种创造生化人功能的方法。

In this design process, designers contemplate a future in which technology no longer compromises separate,

在此设计过程里，设计者们设想，在未来世界中技术不再妥协于与我们头脑和身体分离的、

lifeless tools from our minds and our bodies,

没有任何生命特征的工具；

a future in which technology has been carefully integrated within our nature,

未来世界中，技术已被精心整合到我们人类的天性中；

a world in which what is biological and what is not, what is human and what is not,

一个是否是生物、是否是人、

what is nature and what is not will be forever blurred.

是否是自然本性的界限将永远模糊的世界。

That future will provide humanity new bodies.

未来将为人类提供新的身体。

NeuroEmbodied Design will extend our nervous systems into the synthetic world,

神经体现设计将我们的神经系统延伸到合成世界中，

and the synthetic world into us, fundamentally changing who we are.

同时也将合成世界延伸到我们体内，这些都将从根本上改变我们。

By designing the biological body to better communicate with the built design world,

通过设计生物体实现与构建的设计世界进行更好沟通，

humanity will end disability in this 21st century and establish the scientific and technological basis for human augmentation,

人类将在二十一世纪终结残疾，并为人类能力的强化建立科学和技术基础；

extending human capability beyond innate, physiological levels, cognitively, emotionally and physically.

在认知、感情和身体方面，人类能力的提升将超越先天和生理层面。