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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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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