So, some sort of ability to record information and make generalizations is absolutely essential to making it through life.

所以记录信息的能力,和归纳的能力是非常重要的,是我们生存的关键。

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Because it's essential to locke's case that private property can arise even before there is any government.

因为洛克理论中必不可少的一点是说,私有财产在任何政府建立前就已经产生。

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In fact, that is essential to banking and it's kind of part of the -you might almost call it the definition of a bank.

事实上,这对银行业务是至关重要的,并且这是部分的...,几乎可以说这就是银行的定义

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And it turns out that collecting information about categories is essential to our survival.

我们发现收集类别的信息,以我们的生存至关重要。

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And it seems that if we accept the body view, we have to say being a person is not an essential property of being something like me.

似乎如果我们接受了肉体理论，就必须说作为一个人,并不是作为我的基本性质。

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Or perhaps, strictly speaking, what we should say is the only part that's essential to the person is the soul, though it's got a rather intimate connection to a particular body.

或者,严格地说来,我们可以表达为,灵魂是人最本质的部分,尽管它和肉体间保持着密切的联系

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