Suppose all that happened was I stood right on the border and peered into France, talked to some people in France.
假设我只是曾经,站在法国的边境线上看过法国,同处在法国的人聊过天
Let's say you're driving on the freeway and you've been in a really great conversation with your brother
假设你开车行驶在高速公路上,你和你的哥哥谈得很愉快。
In fact, there's a very famous book called A Random Walk Down Wall Street, that was one of the first to make this hypothesis.
实际上,有一本很著名的书,叫做在华尔街上随机漫步,这本书是最早提出这种假设的先驱者之一。
One, there's this magical reasoning aspect, my reasoning is controlling your actions.
第一,它建立在超现实的假设上,即我的推理能影响到你们
Suppose the soul theorist answers that last objection by saying,Ain't ever going to happen.
假设灵魂理论者对上个异议的答案是,这事情根本不可能发生。
For example, let's pretend that you were at a social gathering at somebody's home,
例如,假设你在一位朋友家里的社交聚会上,
If you're discussing social interests and likes/dislikes with a friend,
假设你在与一个朋友讨论些社交上的喜好或憎恶。
Taking the problem, recognizing that you know what, 8 even though this is a pretty big problem size 8 in this case and last time it was size 8 or in the case of the papers in size of a thousand roughly with the phonebook, I assume these are in a perfectly straight line they won't quite fit.
以这个问题为例,你们要认识到,在这种情况下,这是个比较大的问题,其大小是,上次它的大小也是8,但在纸片那个问题中,电话簿的规模大概是上千的,现在假设这些,杯子完全在同一条直线上,虽然并不十分符合这个条件。
Remember, I said when we do a bisection method, we're assuming the answer lies somewhere between Well, what is the square root of a quarter? It is a half.
记住,我提过当我们用二分法的时候,我们假设答案处于,上边界和下边界之间,0。25的平方根是多少?,是0。5。
But notice that that label,personal identity, the problem of personal identity, seems to have built into it the assumption that whatever it is that's me is going to be a person.
但请注意这个标签,个人认同感,个人认同感的问题,似乎是建立在这样一个假设上,无论我是什么,都将是一个人。
In some sense, strictly speaking they shouldn't be necessary because the fact that my specification starts with an assumption, says, hey you, who might call square root make sure that the things you call me with obey the assumption.
在某种意义上严格的来讲,它们不是必要的,因为我已经对假设做了声明,也就是说,如果你要调用我的,求平方根的函数,请确保你传递给我的,参数满足假设条件。
Imagine that when everybody's born, on their wrist everybody's born with a natural birthmark that indicates the precise year, day, and time in which they're going to die.
假设当大家出生的时候,手腕上都有一个天生的胎记,它预示了哪一年,哪一天,哪个时候你会死去。
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