Our perceptual experiences are not arbitrary.

我们的感知体验不是任意的。

And it's possibly one of the most profound perceptual experiences.

这可能是最深刻的感知体验之一。

For example, could we feed real-time data from the Internet directly into somebody's brain, and can they develop a direct perceptual experience?

例如，我们可以从网上得到实时数据，直接反馈给大脑，这信息可以产生直接的 感知体验吗？

And what we're seeing is, can we expand the human umvelt so that he comes to have, after several weeks, a direct perceptual experience of the economic movements of the planet.

我们在观察的是， 我们是否能拓宽人类的“环境”，以便他在几周之后能有，一个直接的关于全球经济活动的感知体验。

The sense that something had already happened or was going to happen was a result of my perceptual experience occuring earlier or later than my conscious comprehension of it.

感觉某件事已经发生或将要发生，是我的知觉体验比我有意识地理解它更早或更晚发生的结果。

It's this whole apparatus of prediction and prediction error that undergirds all of our perceptual experiences, including the self, has its origin in this role that's tightly coupled to the physiology of the body.

正是这种预测和预测错误的整个装置巩固了我们所有的感知体验，包括自我，其起源于与身体生理学紧密相关的这个角色。

Now the upshot of all this is that perceptual experience is what I've come to call, drawing on the words of others, a " controlled hallucination." Now this is a tricky term, prone to misunderstandings, so let me be clear.

现在所有这一切的结果是， 感知体验就是我所说的，借鉴其他人的话， “受控幻觉” 。 现在这是一个棘手的术语， 容易引起误解，所以让我说清楚。