So, this observation is equivalent to saying that there must be something that is path independent.

这个表述相当于说,一定存在某个物理量是与路径无关的。

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Is there some feature that the physicalist can't explain and so we need to appeal to something extra-physical to explain it?

是否存在物理主义者不能解释的这种特性,使得我们不得不诉诸于,某些超物理的东西来解释

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But anyway, college students, not here, show systematic biases of incorrect physical intuitions.

但不管怎样,大学生,不算这里的,在错误的物理直觉方面存在系统性偏差

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As physicalist we can still say that the bases of personality is that there're bodies, there're functioning in certain ways.

作为物理主义学者我们认为,人格的基础还是肉体的存在，肉体的存在有很多个性。

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Well, then, the question is going to be, "Could it be a case that there could be a physical object that's creative?"

那么,问题就转到,是否存在某种情形,使得物理对象在其中也具有创造力

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Are there mysteries or puzzles about people that the physicalist just draws a blank, but if we become dualists, we can explain these features?

是否存在某些人类的奥秘或谜团,物理主义对此束手无策,而二元论者,却能解释它们

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There must be something more than the purely physical to us.

在我们身上一定存在着,超越于物理实体的特质

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So, as I said, physicalists don't deny that there are minds.

如前所说,物理主义者不否认心灵的存在

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Are there things about us that the physicalist cannot explain?

我们是否存在一些,物理主义者无法解释的问题

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Physicalists believe there are bodies but no souls.

而物理主义者认为,肉体存在而灵魂不存在

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That's something physicalist or dualist can say but and this is not of--to make a good promise they offered earlier, it's not the only view available to physicalists, or for that matter dualists.

物理主义学者或二元论者都可认同,这个观点，但如同他们之前提到的,这并不是物理主义学者眼中,唯一存在的理论，二元论者也是如此。

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Physicalists don't deny that there are minds.

物理主义者们不否认心灵的存在

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The two views we are going to focus on are, on the one hand, the dualist view- people have souls as well as bodies-- and the physicalist view-- all we have, all we are, are bodies.

我们将要关注的两种观点是,一个是二元论,人们既有肉体亦有灵魂,另一个是物理主义,我们所拥有的,我们所存在的,只是肉体而已

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Similarly, then, according to the physicalist, talk of the mind, despite the fact that we have a noun there, is just a way of talking about the abilities of the body to do various things.

相似地,物理主义观点认为,心灵,即便这个名词的确存在,只是我们表达,肉体各种行为能力的一种方式

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When I posit the existence of atoms with certain structures and certain sort of ways of interacting and combining and building up, when I posit atoms, suddenly I can explain all sorts of things about the physical world.

当我假设原子以某种特定结构存在,以一定的方式相互作用,互相结合,集聚,通过假定原子存在,我立即就能够解释,物理世界中各种各样的现象了

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