But if we accept the no branching rule, we're saying whether or not we've got identity depends on what's happening elsewhere.

但如果我们接受了无分支规则，就等于赞同，我们是否有认同感依赖于在别处发生的事情。

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With the no branching rule,identity ceases to be a strictly internal affair.

有了无分支规则，认同感不再是严格意义上的内在事件。

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From the fact that after 100,000 years or a million years or whatever it is, eventually life would grow tiresome, that hardly shows that life has grown tiresome after 50 years or 80 years or 100.

虽然经过十万年,或一百万年后，生命会变得了无生趣，但那不能说明经过50，80，百年后,生命会变得无趣。

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But in the case where we've got branching, where we've got somebody with Napoleon's personality both in Michigan and New York, that violates the no branching rule, and we just have to say nobody's Napoleon in that case.

但在有分歧的案例中，在密西根和纽约都出现了拥有拿破仑人格的人，那违背了无分支规则，那样我们就说，他们都不是拿破仑。

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