in the last couple lectures at a really important topic in thermodynamics.

在前面几次课里,面我们考察了热力学中一个很重要的课题。

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If you quantify how much they relate, then you could look at the correlation.

如果你可以量化二者有多相关,那你就可以考察相关性了

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As I said, we've been considering different kinds of arguments for the existence of a soul, each of which appeals to some feature about us-- our creativity, our ability to feel, the fact that we have a qualitative aspect of experience, our ability to reason-- what have you.

我说过,我们考察了各种各样,证明灵魂存在的论证,每一种都诉诸我们的某种特性,我们的创造性,我们的感知能力,当然还有我们定性方面的经验,我们推理的能力,诸如此类的

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