OK. Well, Watson makes the assumption that muscular activity is equivalent to thinking.

好了。沃森假设肌肉运动等同于思考。

Is there anything else that might account for this change in muscular activity, other than saying that it is thinking? And the answer is clearly yes.

有没有其他的东西会引起这个肌肉运动，除了说那是在思考？答案明显是肯定的。

They put as much muscular activity into a telephone conversation as I would put into carrying a fat man up four flights of stairs.

他们在电话交谈中投入了大量的肌肉活动，就像我将一个胖男人抬上四层楼梯一样。

But given everything we've been talking about here, one has to ask: are there alternatives to this motor theory—this claim that muscular activities are equivalent to thinking?

但是考虑到我们讲的内容，有人要问了：这个主张肌肉运动等同于思考的肌动理论有没有可选项？

Above these regions are the centers for sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste, and the regions that direct voluntary muscular activities of the arms and legs.

这里能执行信息的整合和加工等高级功能。

One of the bits of evidence that supports this is that when people are trying to solve a problem, they, um, typically have increased muscular activity in the throat region.

一个能证明这一点的证据就是，当人们试图解决某个问题时，他们喉部的肌肉活动常常会增加。

They go on to form the cerebellum, which mostly helps coordinate muscular activity, and the brainstem, which plays a vital role in relaying information between the body and the higher regions of the brain.

它们继续形成小脑和脑干，小脑主要帮助协调肌肉活动，脑干在身体和大脑高级区域之间传递信息方面发挥着至关重要的作用。

That is, if you put electrodes on the throat and measure muscle potential—muscle activity—you discover that when people are thinking, like if they're diligently trying to solve a problem, that there is muscular activity in the throat region.

如果你把电极放在喉咙上然后测量肌肉电位——肌肉活动——你会发现当人们思考的时候，比如他们试图解决某一个问题时，在喉部有肌肉活动。