It's true that when you've got a corpse, you've got all the parts there, but clearly they're not functioning properly.

当你面对一具死尸时,肉体所有的部分的确都摆在那里,但它们显然无法正常运作

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As we learned about how humans operate we could start to design machines that would help humans when they weren't functioning properly.

当我们了解了机体如何运作,就可以设计出器械,在人体某些部位功能失常时提供帮助

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But talk of the mind is just a way of talking about these abilities that the body has when it's functioning properly.

但是心灵,仅仅是在肉体还能正常工作时,对这些精神能力的一种表述

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Or more carefully, it's way about talking about certain things the body can do when it's functioning properly, when it's well tuned, as we might put it.

或者更谨慎地说是谈论,身体在机能正常的时候,可以进行的一些活动，我们也可以说在音调调好的时候。

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Our best science suggests that a well-functioning body can perform these things, can think and plan and fall in love by virtue of the fact that the brain is functioning properly.

现今科学认为,一个运作良好的肉体能够做到以下事情,思考,规划,以及彼此相爱,这都得益于,大脑的正常运作

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Roughly speaking,the answer,presumably, on the physicalist view,is going to be something like-- if I'm alive when we've got a P-functioning body, roughly speaking,I die when that stops happening, when the body breaks and it stops functioning properly.

粗略地说，从物理主义者角度看来，答案大概就是-,如果我有人格功能我就活着，粗略地说，那种人格功能停止时我就死了，当身体被破坏，机能停止时，我就死了。

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As I'm sure you know, we're able, with various lower organisms, to put them in a state of suspended animation and then, the amazing thing is, if you heat them back up again properly, they start functioning again.

我想你们一定知道，我们能够使各种低等生物，进入假死状态,而后令人称奇的是，如果将它们正确地重新升温，它们又会重新恢复功能。

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