The only important thing to realize about that is that these differences start to occur very early in development.

唯一需要引起重视的是,这些差异发生在,发育阶段的早期

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And finally, there is regression, which is returning to an earlier stage of development.

最后，来说说退行，意思是回归到发展的某个早期阶段。

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So similarly,there's going to be hard cases about the very,very early stages.

同样，早期阶段也有这样难以解释的例子。

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Now,this is the very early stuff when your body's still developing and your brain hasn't turned on yet, or your brain is turned on,but it hasn't actually become a person yet,right?

而这里，你的肉体还在开发中,是大脑还没有完全开智的早期阶段，或者说你还没有完全成为人的阶段？

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If I just am my brain,in effect,then early A,I don't exist yet.

如果我就是我的大脑，那早期A阶段我就不存在。

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In very,very early A,the brain hasn't even developed yet.

在早期A阶段，大脑还未开发。

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The question was: Would it be plausible to say that at the early phases of A, strictly speaking,the body's not functioning, because it's so utterly dependent on help from the mother's body.

问题是，可否说在早期A阶段，严格地说，身体还未开始运作，因为其还依附于母体的帮助。

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Of course,if we take the version of the body view that what I am, essentially--the crucial body part--is my brain, then we really would have to subdivide A into two parts: early A and late A.

当然，如果我们认同肉体观点，我的存在，取决于肉体的关键，就是我的大脑，那么我们又要将A阶段继续分为早期和晚期阶段。

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There is something there.

早期阶段A这有一个存在。

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