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It has become an obvious truth by now that scientists are not mere knowledge-acquisition machines; they are guided by emotion an

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问题    It has become an obvious truth by now that scientists are not mere knowledge-acquisition machines; they are guided by emotion and intuition as well as by cold reason and calculation. 【F1】Scientiste are rarely so human. I have found, so at the mercy of their fears and desires, as when they are confronting the limits of knowledge. The greatest scientists want, above all, to discover truths about nature (in addition to acquiring glory, grants, and tenure and improving the lot of humankind); they want to know. They hope, and trust, that the truth is attainable, not merely an ideal, which they eternally approach.
   Scientists who harbor this belief are often accused of arrogance. Some are arrogant, supremely so. But many others, I have found, are less arrogant than anxious. These are trying times for truth seekers. Moreover, science itself, as it advances, keeps imposing limits on its own power.
   For the most part, strong scientists have only one option: to pursue science in a speculative, post empirical mode that I call ironic science. 【F2】Ironic science resembles literary criticism in that it offers points of view, opinions, which are, at best, interesting, which provoke further comment. But it does not converge on the truth. It cannot achieve empirically verifiable surprises that force scientists to make substantial revisions in their basic description of reality.
   【F3】As empirical science become stereotyped, journalists such as myself, who feed society’s hunger, will come under more pressure to promote theories that supposedly transcend the big bang theory or natural selection. Journalists are, after all, largely responsible for the popular impression that fields such as chaos and complexity represent genuinely new sciences superior to the dull old reductionist methods of Newton, Einstein and Darwin. 【F4】Journalists, myself included, have also helped quantum (量子) theories of consciousness win an audience much larger than they deserve given their poor standing among professional neuroscientists.
   I do not mean to imply that ironic science has no value. Far from it. At its best ironic science, induces wonder in us; it keeps us in awe before the mystery of the universe. But it cannot achieve its goal of transcending the truth we already have. 【F5】And it certainly cannot give us—in fact, it protects us from—The Answer, a truth so potent that it quenches our curiosity once and for all time. After all, science itself decides that we humans must always be content with partial truths.
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答案包括我自己在内的媒体人，也曾协助意识量子论获得了远超过其相对价值的关注者数量，鉴于意识量子理论在专业神经学家心目中的地位较低。
解析 ①本句是语法意义上的简单句。主干为Journalists have helped win…；两个逗号间的myself included是插入语，表明作者本人也是其中一份子；help sb．do sth．意为“帮助某人做某事”；quantum theories of consciousness意为“意识量子论”。②比较结构much larger than…作后置定语修饰audience，该词表示“观众，听众”，结合文章可知，此处表示对意识量子论有关注的人群，故可处理为“关注者”。③句末的given…意为“考虑到……，鉴于……”，引出原因状语。
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