Pretty clearly, to think about death and continued existence and survival, we have to get clear about the nature of personal identity.

很清楚，要想思考死亡,和继续存在并且活着，我们不得不弄清楚个人身份的本质。

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All right,so on the body view,I exist here, but I'm not alive,so it doesn't give me what matters.

好了，在肉体理论角度，我存在于此，但我并不是活着的，这不是我想要的关键。

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I don't have what I wanted,when I wanted to survive.

没有我活着时想要的东西。

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It's natural to talk that way, but if we want belief in the soul to help us hold out the possibility at least that there might be life after death, then I think we need to actually say that strictly speaking, it's not that a person is a soul plus a body.

这说起来很轻松,如果我们想要寄托于,相信灵魂的存在,而让死后能够继续活着有据可依,那么我们需要一个严格的说法,不是说一个人是灵魂加肉体

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