We will initially think about the first question: Do we have any good reason to believe in souls at all?
我们将要开始考虑第一个问题,我们到底有没有理由去相信灵魂的存在
Given the thesis about recycling, then, we have reason to believe the soul will continue to exist after we break.
如果循环观点是正确的,那么我们有理由相信,灵魂会在我们消亡之后继续存在
The state of nature fully continues, in many ways, oddly even in civil society, he says, whenever we have reason to believe that our lives or our properties or ourselves are not secure.
从很多方面来说,自然状态,即使在文明社会里也显得奇怪,不论我们是否有理由相信我们有生活,生命和财产财产安全的保障。
There are services now, we don't know yet how to get those stem cells out of cord blood and how to use them for therapies, but it's reasonable to think that we might know about this in 30 years.
现在已经有提供这样的服务了,我们现在还不知道如何从脐带血中,提取这些干细胞并用于治疗,但有理由相信,在未来的30年内我们会知道的
There is some reason to believe that in the population known as "psychopaths," a population we'll return to later on when we discuss mental illness, this sort of instinctive empathy is broken and the pain of others just doesn't bother them very much.
我们有理由相信,在一类被称为“精神变态者“的人当中“,我们以后会继续讨论这类人,当我们讲到精神疾病时,他们就没有这种本能的移情,他们对别人的痛苦无动于衷。
We'd sort of have some reason to believe in the soul until we sort of see what next argument comes down the road.
我们可能会有理由相信灵魂的存在,直到我们沿着这个方向探究到其他论证的存在
Even if recycling takes place, we don't have any good reason yet to believe that the soul is one of the recycled parts.
即使循环的确发生了,我们并没有很好的理由来相信,灵魂就是一个循环的部件
What we were looking for, after all, was some reason to believe in souls.
毕竟,我们所寻求的是,相信灵魂存在的理由
And if the best the soul theorist can say is, "I can't explain it and neither can you," that's not a reason to believe this side.
如果灵魂理论者最多只能说,我不能解释,你也不能,这不是一个相信灵魂存在的理由
We don't have any particular reason to think my heart's one of the prior-existing pieces; we don't have any good reason to assume that my soul's one of the prior-existing pieces.
我们没有什么理由,去相信我的心脏是之前就存在的,我们没有理由说,我的灵魂之前就是存在的
Is there reasons to believe it's correct?
我们有理由去相信它的正确性吗
So it's some way of interfacing activity in your brain with the outside world, and we'll talk about this as we go along, but there's lots of reasons to think that we're going to have this in the not too distant future.
它是一种将大脑,和外部世界连接起来的办法,当我们遇到这个问题的时候再细讲,但我们非常有理由相信,不远的将来我们就能应用这些技术
Well, Plato thinks what's going to follow is that we have some reason to believe in the immortality of the soul as, again, as we indicated last time, the picture is that the mind--the soul-- is able to grasp these eternal Platonic forms, the ideas.
柏拉图认为接下来,我们就有理由去相信,灵魂的不朽,就像我们上次指出的,它的中心思想是心灵,灵魂,可以去认知,这些柏拉图的型相,理念
And the logic is if you find somebody-- Crudely, if you find somebody with damage to this part of the brain right here and that person can't recognize faces for instance, there's some reason to believe that this part of the brain is related to face recognition.
这里的逻辑是这样的,比如说,如果你发现某人,大脑的右边这一部分受到了损伤,他无法进行面孔识别,那么就有理由相信,大脑的这部分是与面孔识别有关的
Could it be true, is there any good reason to believe it is true, that nobody believes they're going to undergo bodily death?
有没有任何理由相信,没人会相信自己肉体的消亡呢?
So maybe that's why we need to believe in souls in order to explain free will.
或许我们需要相信灵魂的理由就是,为了便于解释自由意志
But at least it would give us some reason to believe in the soul.
但至少它给了我们一些相信灵魂存在的理由
Well, Plato's very next argument attempts to persuade us that indeed we do have reason to believe that the soul is one of the prior-existing pieces.
柏拉图下面一个论证就试着,说服我们有理由相信,灵魂原来就是存在的
Even if there is an immortal soul-- Sorry. Even if there is a non-physical soul that's part of me, we don't yet have any reason to believe that it's one of the fundamental building blocks that were being recycled.
即使灵魂是不灭的,不对,即使有个非现实的灵魂是我的一部分,我们并没有任何理由去相信,灵魂是被循环利用的,基本组成部分之一
But more importantly still--those are all crucial but there's an extra ingredient as well-- he thinks he's got good reason to believe, when he dies he's going to go, basically, to what we'd call heaven.
更重要的是,当然前面几点也很重要,但是还有更重要的一点,他觉得他有理由相信,他死后他将去到一个,我们通常称为天堂的地方
This is mainly a research tool now, but there's lots of reasons to believe that this is going to change the way that physicians practice medicine by allowing them to diagnose or predict what's going to happen to you in ways that they can't currently.
这项技术现在还只是一种研究工具,但我们有理由相信,它将改变,内科医生诊疗实践的方式,因为它能让医生,诊断或预测出病人将要得的病,这是他们现在做不到的
Earlier the objection was, We had no good reason to think the soul was one of the building blocks from which we're composed; we have no good reason to think it's one of the pieces that was around before our body got put together, before our birth.
早一点的反驳意见是,我们没有好的理由来相信灵魂,是组成我们的一个基础部件,我们没有好的理由去相信它是,在我们出生前,身体形成前就存在的部分之一
And if that's right, if there can be parts that I have now that weren't one of the parts from which I was made, there's no particular reason to think it's going to be one of the parts that's going to continue to exist after I die.
如果这是事实,如果说现在构成我的一些零部件,并不是在我存在之前就存在的,那我们就没理由相信,这些零部件会在我死后,继续存在下去
If we could find the right F, and make out the argument, the physicalist can't explain it or does a bad job of explaining it and the dualist does a better job of explaining it, we'd have reason to believe in the soul.
如果我们能找到合适的特性F,并且给出论证,物理主义者无法解释,或者解释得很牵强,而二元论的解释更合理,那么我们就有理由相信有灵魂存在
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