So as I say,the soul theory can at least give us an answer that avoids the no branching rule.

所以我说，灵魂理论至少能给我们,一个避开无分支规则的答案。

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which, the, I think, the subfields are Political Theory, International Relations,

像是政治理论和国际关系的分支，

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Well,maybe what the soul theorist would have to do at this point is accept the--da-ta-da--the no branching rule.

在这一点上也许灵魂理论者必须,也接受无分支规则。

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As we'll learn from Jakobson next week, literature can be understood--or what he calls the study of literature, "poetics"--can be understood as a subfield of semiotics, but semiotics is not in itself a literary theory.

下周我们学雅各布森的时候也会看到，文学可以被理解为，诗学，即符号学的一个分支，但是符号学不是文学理论。

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So we revise the personality theory to say, the secret to personal identity is having the same personality-- provided that there's no branching.

所以我们对人格理论稍作修改，提出人格理论的秘诀在于-,给人格提供无分支的前提。

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So let's try to choose between the personality theory with the no branching rule and the body theory with the no branching rule.

让我们从带有无分支规则的人格理论,和带有无分支规则的肉体理论选一个。

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Both of them,as we saw in the face of fission, needs to accept a no branching rule.

这两种理论在裂变说法的面前，都需要接受无分支规则。

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Well,if you don't find the no branching rule plausible, you're in trouble as a body theorist.

如果你觉得无分支规则不可行，那作为肉体理论者，你就麻烦了。

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If you don't like the no branching rule, it's not clear what your alternatives are.

如果你不接受无分支理论，你的选择就不明确。

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There was certainly a long period of time in which I found the personality theory, that is,the personality theory with a no branching rule, to be the better and more plausible theory.

有一段时间内，我觉得无分支理论下的，人格理论，是更好更合理的理论。

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If the personality theory needs the no branching rule, and the body theory needs the no branching rule, and the soul theory needs the no branching rule, maybe we're just stuck with the no branching rule, whether or not we like it.

如果人格理论需要无分支规则，肉体理论也需要无分支规则，灵魂理论同样需要无分支规则，无论喜欢与否，也许我们就是卡在无分支规则上了。

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If the body view adds the no branching principle, then we can say,look,in the case of this sort of splitting-- This example is known in the to philosophical literature as fission, like nuclear fission when a big atom splits into two.

如果肉体理论加入无分支原则，我们就能说，在这种分裂的情况下-,这种分裂在哲学文献中叫做裂变，就像原子一分为二的核裂变。

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And the only solution that I can see, at least the best solution that I can see, is to accept the no branching rule.

且我看唯一的解决方法，至少是最合适的解决方法，就是接受无分支理论。

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So,in the fission case,the body says,the body theorist says, in the fission case,there's splitting,there's branching.

在这种裂变的情况下，肉体理论者说，分裂和分支存在的情况下。

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The problem with--what drove the personality theory into the no branching rule, implausible as it may be,was the fact that your personality is like software,and it can be copied.

看似不可能，但将人格理论，拖入无分支规则的问题就是,人格可被拷贝这个事实。

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But at other times in my philosophical career, I have found the body theory,that is to say, the body theory with the no branching rule,to be the more plausible theory.

在我哲学事业的另一段时间里，我也曾觉得，带有无分支规则的，肉体理论更为可行。

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So where the original personality theory said,same personality, that's good enough for being the same person, the new version throws in a no-competitors clause, throws in a no branching clause.

所以原人格理论说，相同人格，足以使之成为相同的人，新版人格理论添加了一个无竞争者条件，添加了一个无分支条件。

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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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