That's why we said on the personality theory,as we went ahead in time, once the P-functioning stops,I don't exist anymore.
这就是为什么根据人格理论的说法,随着时间流逝,人格功能停止,我也不再存在。
Well,you can't tell by thinking about the normal case, because the B-functioning and the P-functioning stop at the same time.
这从通常的例子中是研究不出来的,因为生理功能和人格功能同时结束。
What I've done is imagine a case in which the personality functioning stops before the rest of the body functioning stops.
现在我要做的只是想象一个,人格功能在生理功能停止前停止的例子。
So perhaps in the relevant sense, the person can still engage in P-functioning, so they're not dead. Good enough.
所以也许在相对的条件下,这个人还有人格功能性,他们还没有死,很好。
Well, the initially tempting thing to say is not only aren't you broken, but you're actually engaged in P-functioning.
首先要说的会是,不仅你没有被破坏,还有确实,拥有人格功能性。
The structures in the brain which would underwrite the ability to engage in P-functioning, they're not destroyed by suspended animation.
存在于大脑中的,能够支持人格功能的结构,并没有被假死状态所破坏。
But if death means permanent cessation of P-functioning, then it turns out the dead weren't really dead after all.
但如果死亡指的是人格功能性的永久停止,那就说明死者并非死去。
And details aside,death is a matter of the body breaking, so that it's no longer able to engage in P-functioning.
除开其他细节,死亡只是肉体的破坏,以至于不能再实施人格功能。
So it turns out that during that period in which they were dead, they were only temporarily not P-functioning.
那么在他们死去的那段时间,他们只是暂时没有人格功能性。
Although they will be engaged in P-functioning later on, it's not true right now that they can engage in P-functioning.
虽然他们后来能够有人格功能性,但是现在却没有。
Suppose we say then that to be alive as a person is to be able to engage in P-functioning.
假设我们说作为人而活着,就是有人格功能性。
Let's just suppose, as seems likely, that none of the P-functioning is occurring, at some point during sleep.
我们就这样设想一下,在睡眠的某个时间点上,没有任何人格功能性。
So we're going to have to revise the P-functioning or the end of P-functioning theory of death.
我们要修改人格功能,或者人格功能的完结代表死亡这一说法。
And so a person is just a P-functioning body, whether you emphasize the body side there or the personality side of that equation.
人就是有着人格功能的肉体,无论强调人格部分还是肉体部分。
If there are three possibilities--dead, alive, or suspended-- to be dead, we could still say you've got to be broken, incapable of P-functioning.
如果有三种可能,生存,死亡或者假死-,要死亡的话,你必须是被破坏的状态,无法拥有人格功能性。
They were only temporarily not P-functioning, just like we are temporarily not P-functioning when we're asleep.
只是暂时失去了人格功能性,就像我们睡觉时,暂时没有人格功能性一样。
When all goes well, the body is also capable of engaging in higher order personal P-functioning.
当一切都正常时,肉体就能拥有高级的人格功能性。
And let's just suppose that we're dealing with the normal case, where the body functioning stops at the same time as the personality functioning stops.
让我们假设我们在处理通常的案例,生理功能通常和人格功能同时停止。
So now it's not just that the on-off switch is stuck in off, the brain's no longer capable of engaging in these higher order P-functions.
所以现在看来就不是开关被卡住,大脑已经不再有能力,实行这些高级的人格功能。
So the proposal that death is a matter of permanent cessation of P-functioning versus temporary, that doesn't seem like it's going to do the trick.
所以说死亡只永久地,停止人格功能性的这个说法,也不是正确的。
Well, one possibility would be to say, the question is not whether you are P-functioning.
有一个说法是,关键不在于你有没有人格功能性。
In the normal case,I'm in a car accident or whatever it is, and my body stops functioning,my personality stops functioning, and you're left with a corpse.
通常,在车祸或者什么情况作用下,我的生理功能和人格功能同时停止,剩下的就是一具尸体。
And as you know,I've defended the physicalist conception, according to which all we are are just bodies capable of doing some fancy tricks, capable of P-functioning.
你们都知道,我认同的是物理主义者的设想,根据这个设想,我们都只是有着机能的肉体,我们能够实施人格功能。
It's okay if you're not P-functioning, as long as your not P-functioning is temporary.
没有人格功能性是可以的,只要这个阶段是暂时的。
We might say, look, while you're asleep, it's true that you're not P-functioning.
我们可以说,看,当你睡着时,确实没有人格功能性。
Both in terms of body functions and personality functions, I'm just a corpse.
生理功能和人格功能都停止的时候,我只是一具尸体了。
If we take this simple straightforward view and say you're dead when you're not P-functioning anymore, then you were dead,on and off and on and off,last night.
如果我们就用那直接简单的观点,说你就是死了,不再有人格功能了,昨晚你就不断地死亡和复活中度过。
Of such a person we might say, they're no longer capable of P-functioning.
有人也许会说,他们已经没有人格功能能力。
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