So let me turn to a different approach to solving the question, answering the question,which one should we believe?

所以让我用另一个方法来解决这个问题，回答该相信哪一个理论的问题？

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One percent is just theory. Good job! I know you can do it.

理论指导只占剩下的 1%。干得不错！相信你，能行的！

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But since I don't believe in souls, I want to choose between the body view and the personality view.

但因为我不相信灵魂，我想从身体理论和人格理论中选择。

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Theory is important and it's important to know what you believe," in other words, what the basis of all other possible theory is.

理论很重要，了解自己相信什么也很重要“,也就是说，其它可能理论的基础是。

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So this is a very popular theory, believed by many famous economists today, and in the past.

所以这是一个很受欢迎的理论,从古至今都有很多经济学家相信它。

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Another question is if you believe in modules-- if there are modules, what are they?

另一个问题是,如果你相信模块理论,如果模块是存在的,那么它们究竟是什么

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Hacking believes that there were many gambling theorists who invented probability theory at various times in history but never wrote it down and kept it as a secret.

哈金相信历史上有很多赌博理论家,曾多次构想了概率论,但从来没有记录下来,并且恐为人知

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You might say, I'll leave that problem-- are souls spatially located or not-- to be worked out by those who believe in it.

你可能会说,我会把这个问题,"灵魂是否在空间上有它的位置",留给那些相信这个理论的人去解决

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I can't bring myself to believe it, I have some sympathies for valuable container theories, but I also have some sympathy for neutral container theories.

我无法让自己去相信它，我有点赞同有价值容器理论，但是我也有点赞同中性容器理论。

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As a fan of the body view,I believe I'll still exist for a while.

作为肉体理论的支持者，我相信我还会存在一段时间。

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In which case,what you're discovering is you don't really believe the personality theory.

不管如何，其实是你不相信人格理论。

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That's an advantage for the soul theory,if only we believed in souls.

如果我们相信灵魂理论。

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I think probably we shouldn't believe the theory of belief which says that in order to believe in something, you've got to be able to picture it or believe it.

我觉得我们不能相信下面这种理论,如果要相信一件事情，这件事情必须能够被想象出来。

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Now,let's suppose we believe the personality theory of personal identity.

让我们假设相信个人认同感的人格理论。

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So we're justified in believing in germs, but not demons.

所以,我们相信微生物理论合理,而恶魔理论则不合理

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And it's precisely for this reason that at least the soul, belief in the soul, combined with the soul theory of personal identity holds out the possibility of surviving my death.

就因为这个原因,至少灵魂，相信灵魂，在加上灵魂理论的人格同一性,建立起我不死的可能性。

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Still, I take it--I gather--here's what I'm told-- that the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics says that, despite what many of us might've otherwise believed, the fundamental laws of physics are not, in fact, deterministic.

别人告诉了我这么一个例子,量子力学的正统理论认为,尽管有很多人可能不相信,物理学的基本定律事实上也不是确定性的

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So at the very same moment that positing the nonsplitting of souls seems to solve the fission problem of duplication, it yanks the rug out from underneath the soul theorist by undermining one of the types of arguments for believing in the soul in the first place.

所以在为了解决复制产生的裂变问题,营造出灵魂的不分割性时，也侵蚀了一开始相信灵魂的存在的论据,从内部动摇了灵魂理论者。

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Of course,these are also theological matters, and so I'm not trying to say anything here today to argue you out of the theological conviction that God will resurrect the body or God will transplant your personality into some new angel body, but if you believe in the personality theory, that will be you,or what have you.

当然，这些也是神学上的问题，我今天不会和你争辩,上帝能复活肉体或者将人格移植,进入新的某个天使的肉体，但如果你相信人格理论，那还是将成为你。

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So I can't use thinking about the Williams cases as a method of deciding what do I really believe, the body view or the personality view?

因此我不能采用Williams的案例,来帮助我们判断我们应该相信哪种理论，肉体理论还是人格理论？

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I think we're going to perhaps be drawn to different answers, depending on whether we accept the body view or the personality view.

我想我们也许该根据自己是相信肉体理论，还是人格理论来选择答案。

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I believe that these are the foundational moments of theorizing and that if you're going to teach anything like a survey, you've got to derive the rest of it from whatever the moment I happen to subscribe to might be."

我相信这些都对建立理论非常重要,如果你想教概论之类的东西，那么其它的部分都得是我赞同的才行“

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Since I believe in the body theory,the good news is, you will exist after your death.

因为我相信身体理论，好消息就是，你死后依然生存着。

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That's why,they say,we should believe in the body view.

这就是他们声称应该相信肉体理论的原因。

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Now,if the Michigan guy hadn't been there, what I would have done, if I believed in the personality theory or when I believe in the personality theory, is say Oh look,Napoleon--reincarnated in New York.

如果密西根家伙不曾出现在那里，那么我就会，假如我相信人格理论的话，我便会说，看，拿破仑在纽约转生了。

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And what we now see is that-- to see whether that could be the case or not, we've got to get clear in our own minds about whether we believe in a neutral container theory, ... a positive, valuable container theory or-- and among those, between a fantastic and a modest container theory.

现在我们可以看到-,情况是不是这样，我们就要想清楚,我们相信的是中性容器理论，是积极的有价值容器理论还是-,有价值容器理论中的，理想容器理论或保守容器理论。

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