This pump, which Mr Dennett calls a cascade of homunculi, was inspired by the field of artificial intelligence. (AI)

内特把这种泵称之为级联儒，其灵感自于人工智能领域（AI）。

They were influenced by the idea of the homunculus, which is Latin for little man.

他们受到 homunculus 概念影响，homunculus 是拉丁语中小人意思。

But it's not as if there's a homunculus in there who's in charge.

但这并非意味着里面有个小矮人掌控一切。

I'm like, yeah, there's some little, it's not a homunculus.

我说，是，虽然有些小，但那不是小人。

Is there a homunculus down in there?

里面有个小人吗？

Even the addition of a second Normal size human being wouldn't cause a structural failure, Much less a homunculus such as yourself.

就算多承重一个正常体型人类也不会引致其床架松动更别提像你这样小雏形人了。

People could get their own babies painted, and they wanted them to look like cute chubby babies, not homunculi.

人们可以给自己婴儿上色，他们希望他们看起来像可爱胖婴儿， 而不是矮人。

If I close my eyes and look for him, I won't find some homunculus of Dan between my ears.

如果我闭上眼睛寻找他，我找不到耳朵之间某个儒。

He had explained at length to somebody that magical receipts existed for the manufacture of homunculi.

他向某人详细解释了制造儒魔法收据。

So what the homunculus is, is it's a representation of how our brain has allocated resources to help us be successful.

所以，所谓“小人”，实际上是我们大脑如何分配资源以助我们取得成功体现。

These homunculi were seen by historical persons, by Count Max Lemberg, by Count Franz-Josef von Thun, and by many others.

这些人造人曾被历史人物 Max Lemberg 伯爵、Franz-Josef von Thun 伯爵和许多其他人看到过。

There were ten homunculi—James Kammerer calls them prophesying spirits—kept in strong bottles, such as are used to preserve fruit, and these were filled with water.

有十个小矮人——詹姆斯·卡默勒称它们为预言之灵——装在结实瓶子里， 比如用来保存水果， 瓶子里装满了水。

When you look at that homunculus, one of the things I always will ask people to think about is, you know, what's wrong with this image?

当你看到那个“小人”时，我总会让人们思考一个问题：这张图有什么不对劲地方？

The homunculus within died after a few painful respirations in spite of all efforts to save him, and the body was buried in the garden.

尽管尽了一切努力抢救，但体内人造人在痛苦地呼吸了几下后还是死了，尸体被埋在了花园里。

Crucially, at each level down in the cascade the virtual homunculi become a bit less clever, to a point where all it needs to do is, say, pick the larger of two numbers.

这一过程关键在于，在这个串联在一起每一个较低层次子系统中，那个虚拟儒会渐渐地变得不再那么聪明，直至到达这样一个点为止。在这个点上，需要那个儒来做全部事情就是在两个数字中选出较大那一个。

The time-honoured idea that the mind is essentially a little man, or homunculus, who sits in the brain doing clever things soon becomes problematic: who does all the clever things in the little man's brain?

传统观点认为，从本质上说，心灵是一个住在人类大脑里从事智力活动小人，或者儒。不过，在尼特看来这种观点是站不住脚：既然如此，那么，住在这个儒大脑中，从事智力活动人又是谁呢？

The change had to be made rapidly, because while the homunculi were exposed to the air they closed their eyes and seemed to grow weak and unconscious, as though they were about to die.

变化必须迅速进，因为人造人在暴露在空气中同时，他们闭上了眼睛，似变得虚弱无力，失去了知觉，就好像他们即将死去一样。

James Gronovius of Leyden —" homunculus eruditione mediocri, ingenio nullo" , as Bentley called him — attacked Bentley for ten years because Bentley had succeeded in correcting a fragment of Callimachus where he had failed.

莱顿詹姆斯·格罗诺维乌斯（本特利称他为“博学儒，无知人”）对本特利进了十年攻击，因为本特利成功地纠正了他失败卡利马科斯一个片段。

When the bottles were removed, it was found that the spirits had grown to about a span and a half each; the male homunculi were come into possession of heavy beards, and the nails of the fingers had grown.

当瓶子被移走时，发现烈酒已经长到大约一跨半；男性儒开始留着浓密胡须，手指上指甲也长出来了。