But in the science fiction story where there's a duplicate,it says, if there's branching,the no branching rule comes in.

但在科幻作品里，复制的案例是存在的，分裂出现时，在无分支的规定下。

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This chart, very boring and uninteresting but useful to say there are very well defined rules as to when you're writing code, what operators, like what syntax should get evaluated first.

这个图表，看起来很烦，很无趣，但是它很有用,有非常明确的规定,譬如，当你写代码时，就会涉及操作符的优先级。

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The trouble was,it seems the no branching rule seems very counter-intuitive.

麻烦在于，这无分支规定是很反直觉的。

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So,if you're not willing to accept the no branching rule, if it strikes you as a bizarre thing to throw in to personal identity, maybe you need to reject the personality theory.

所以若你不愿意接受无分支规定，如果你觉得这个人认同感里很奇怪，也许你就需要否决人格理论了。

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So although the personality with no branching rule avoids the problem of what to say about duplicates, by saying when there's branching,neither of them is Shelly Kagan, the branching rule itself seems very counter-intuitive.

所以纵然带有无分支规定的人格理论,避开了关于复制的问题，说当出现分支时，Shelly，Kagan就不复存在了，这个无分支规定本身就很反直觉。

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