When I try to get you to grasp how physicalist think about the mind, I use examples about computers and robots and the like.

当我试图让你们理解,物理学家怎样思考精神，我用了电脑,和机器人的例子。

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Talk about the mind, says the physicalist, is just a way of talking about the body.

物理学家说谈论精神，是谈论肉体的一种方式。

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So the harmony analogy is I think an attempt, and not a bad attempt, at gesturing towards the question how do physicalists think about the mind.

所以我认为和声的类比是个尝试，而且是不错的尝试,尝试解读物理学家如何思考精神。

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I think what's going on in the harmony, the suggestion that we should think the mind like harmony as though the harmony of the body, is an early attempt to state the physicalist view.

推断精神像是，我们肉体的和声,展现了，对物理学家的观点的早期尝试。

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He can see that you could be a physicalist and say that the mind is dependent on the body, the mind is just a way of talking about what the body can do when it's working properly.

他能了解你能作为物理学家,说精神依靠肉体，说精神也就是说当身体运转,身体可以做些什么。

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