to earn his favor and perhaps his protection, But even that god will have limited powers and abilities and may in fact be defeated or may turn on his devotees.

来赢利他的青睐或者是保护，但纵然是上帝，权力和能力也是有限的,事实上，他也许会被打败，或者发动他的崇拜者。

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Well,maybe the explanation is, although we give lip service to the claim that we're mortal, at some more fundamental level,we don't truly believe it.

也许这个的解释就是，纵然我们口头上说我们会死，在某些最根本的层面上我们其实并不相信。

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That seems,more or less, the right answer from the physicalist point of view, although as we'll see probably later today, we need to refine it somewhat.

这或多或少，是从物理主义者角度得到的正确答案，纵然我们后面还会看到，这个答案是需要完善的。

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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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