We need to believe that the soul, unlike an engine, can't itself be destroyed, can't itself decompose, can't fall apart.

我们需要相信的是，灵魂和发动机不同，自己不会毁灭，自己不会腐烂，自己不会变成碎片。

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Is there any good reason to believe that we don't believe that we're going to cease to exist as a person?

有没有一个好的理由相信,我们不相信,自己会停止作为一个人的存在呢？

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So, we are now going to do one standard problem where we will convince ourselves we can apply this formulas and predict the future given the present.

我们接下来将去研究一个标准问题,通过这个问题,我们能让自己相信,我们能利用这些式子,根据现状,预测未来

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There are philosophers who have said we certainly believe that we've got free will, but it's an illusion.

有这样一些哲学家,他们说,我们确实相信自己有自由意志,但这只是一种错觉

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I think we're going to perhaps be drawn to different answers, depending on whether we accept the body view or the personality view.

我想我们也许该根据自己是相信肉体理论，还是人格理论来选择答案。

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By torturing the bodies we cause pain to the minds,the personalities, who have beliefs about who's hurting.

通过折磨肉体，我们对意识和人格造成痛苦，对相信自己被伤害的人造成痛苦。

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But of course,nobody here is screaming, from which we can conclude none of us really do believe, fundamentally,deep down,that we're going to die.

但当然现在在场没人在尖叫，那我们得出结论，我们中没有人，从根本上相信自己会死。

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Still, granted the premise, if you can't picture it or imagine it, you can't believe in it-- Should we conclude, therefore, that you can't believe you're going to be dead?

但让我们仍然基于，无法想象的东西是不能相信的这个前提-,我们就该得出，人不能相信自己的死亡,这一结论吗？

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We might say,on one level he believes that he was mortal.

我们可以说，某程度上他相信自己会死。

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This is the claim--not that nobody believes they're going to die; that's the one we've been talking about for the last lecture or so--but instead, the claim that everybody dies alone.

这论点是这样的，不同于我们以前所讲的;,没有人相信自己会死亡，而是说每个人都是孤独而死的。

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Of course, we mistakenly believe we've got free will.

当然,我们错误地相信自己有自由意志

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You might ask though,is there some other behavior, something else that should tip us off,could tip us off, as to whether or not we really do or don't believe that we're going to die?

你可能会问，有没有其他行为，能够让我们突然醒悟，知道我们真正是否相信自己会死呢？

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The fact that we don't behave in those other ways gives us some reason to believe that perhaps at some level we don't completely or fully or fundamentally believe we're going to die.

而我们并没有像他们一样的行为,说明了我们在某些或者根本程度上,没有完全相信自己会死亡。

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That's a stronger claim, though I think it's not the sort of claim that's unique to Tolstoy, that all of us or most of us or many of us at the fundamental level don't really believe that we're going to die.

这个说法就比较有力了，虽然我觉得这不是托尔斯泰独有的看法，声称我们当中全部或大部分,从某种根本程度上不相信自己会死。

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Well,in the same way,if we could find some behavior on our part that calls out for explanation, that the best possible explanation would be that at some level we don't believe we're going to die, then we might say,look, this gives us some reason to think that we don't really believe we're going to die, even though we say we believe it.

同样，如果我们发现自己有些行为有待解释，这最好的解释可能就是,在某种程度上，我们不相信自己会死，然后我们说，看，这让我们有理由相信，我们并不相信我们会死，即使我们口头上说相信。

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but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?

而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于，这样一种相信的状态，虽然我们都声称自己会死，是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢？

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For all we know, Ivan Ilyich still believes in souls, believes he's going to go to heaven and so forth.

我们都知道，Ivan，Ilyich始终相信，自己的灵魂会上到天堂。

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