我们能够通过暂停来消除我们固有的反应,这是我们与动物的不同之处:狗思考未来只能断断续续地或只能维持几分钟。
Snap decisions can be important defense mechanisms; if we are judging whether someone is dangerous, our brains and bodies are hard-wired to react very quickly, within milliseconds.快速决策可以是重要的防御机制;在判断某人是否是个危险人物时,我们的大脑和身体会自发地在几毫秒内做出快速反应。
A revolution in genetics has poised this as a modern political question about the character of our society: if personalities are hard-wired into our genes, what can governments do to help us?遗传学的一场革命将这一问题定位为一个有关我们社会特征的现代政治问题:如果性格与我们的基因紧密相连,那么政府能做些什么来帮助我们呢?