雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第3章:思考什麼是思考(51)
If Alan enjoyed Back to Methuselah, it would also have been because Shaw dramatised his theory of the Life Force,
如果說艾倫很喜歡《千歲人》，那就是因爲蕭伯納在戲劇裏表現了他的思想，生命有其自身的力量。
Which raised the same questions as the 'spirit'.
這又引起了靈魂的問題。
One of Shaw's characters said 'Unless this withered thing religion, and this dry thing science, come alive in our hands, alive and intensely interesting, we may just as well go out and dig the garden until it is time to dig our graves.'
蕭伯納筆下的角色說：拋開那枯萎的宗教和乏味的科學吧，掌控自己的生命，我們可以盡情地在花園中嬉戲，直至時間讓我們進入墓園。
This was Alan's problem in 1933, although he could not accept Shaw's easy solution.
這是1933年艾倫遇到的問題，但他不能接受蕭伯納的輕易結論。
Bernard Shaw had no compunction about rewriting science if it did not agree with his ideas; determinism had to go, if it conflicted with a Life Force.
對蕭伯納來說，如果科學不符合他的想法，他就會毫無顧忌地改寫科學。
What damns Darwinian Natural Selection as a creed is that it takes hope out of evolution, and substitutes a paralysing fatalism which is utterly discouraging.
達爾文的自然選擇，作爲一個綱領，讓我們從進化論中看到一種希望，取代令人沮喪的宿命論。
As Butler put it, it 'banishes Mind from the universe.'
正如勃特勒所說，心靈與整個宇宙有別。
The generation that felt nothing but exultant relief when it was delivered from the tyranny of an Almighty Busybody by a soulless Determinism has nearly passed away, leaving a vacuum which Nature abhors.
這一代人，欣喜地覺得自己被從全能的裁決者那裏拯救出來了。
Science, for Shaw, had to be a Life Force, of which the super-intelligent Oracle of A.D.3000 could say 'Our physicists deal with it. Our mathematicians express its measurements in algebraic equations.'
爲了這個目的，生命必須要有一種力量，對這種力量，公元3000年的超級智能可以說，我們的物理學家解出了它，我們的數學家在方程中表示了它。
But for Alan, science had to be true, rather than comforting.
但對艾倫來說，科學是一種事實，而不是一種自慰。
His Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik had arrived in October 1932, but perhaps Alan had put off tackling it until the summer, when he also obtained books on quantum mechanics by Schr?dinger and Heisenberg.
數學家兼物理學家約翰.馮.諾伊曼對生命的力量這種話題沒說什麼，但他的《量子力學的數學基礎》1932年10月已經到了艾倫手裏，艾倫大概直到夏天才讀它，這時他還收到了薛定諤和海森堡的關於量子論的書。
On 16 October 1933 he wrote:
1933年十月他寫道：
