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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Now I take it the dissertation can be read without knowing that, and the science is fine.

我认为我们在读他的论文是,在不知道他信仰时，他研究的科学并无不妥。

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He's sort of an innocent primitive, he appears unclothed he lives a free, peaceful life in harmony with the animals, with nature and the beasts, he races across the steppes with the gazelles.

他是一个未开化的野人，出现时身无寸缕,生活随性，和动物与自然和平相处,有时候甚至和羚羊赛跑，穿过草原。

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We're going to have to refine it to deal with the obvious fact that you're not dead all the times when you're unconscious and not dreaming.

以便适应人在无意识和无梦睡眠时,并没有死这个显而易见的事实。

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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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