And I say,Oh,that's very interesting that that knucklebone will be around 100 or 1,000 years from now.

我会说，很好，很有趣,指关节骨会继续存活成百上千年。

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After you die,we're going to do knucklebone surgery and implant that knucklebone in somebody else's body.

植入另一个人的身体里,让这个指关节骨存活下去。

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It's no more comforting or satisfying than if you said, You know this knucklebone?

这就和告诉我，你死后我们会做手术，把你的指关节骨？

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Now,the knucklebone theory of personal identity is a very stupid theory.

这个指关节骨的个人认同感理论是愚蠢的。

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Bare knucklebone survival does not give me what matters.

指关节骨的存活对我来说无关紧要。

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And if the knucklebone theory of personal identity gets proposed and somebody said, Oh,yes,but you see,that person now with that knucklebone will be you, because the key to personal identity is having the very same knucklebone.

如果个人认同感的指关节骨理论被提出，有人会说，你看，这个有着你指关节骨的人，就会成为你，因为指关节骨就是个人认同感的关键。

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