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Ah,says the soul theorist, Follow the soul--unless the soul splits, Shelly Kagan in which case neither of them is Shelly Kagan.
灵魂理论者说，跟随灵魂，除非灵魂分裂，那样他们就都不是。
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What's the alternative? The alternative,it seems,for the soul theorist, Shelly Kagan is to say,neither of them is Shelly Kagan.
还有什么选择，灵魂理论者还有的选择，就是说他们都不是。
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Maybe the soul theorist has an alternative available to it that-- available to him that the other theories don't have.
也许灵魂理论者还有一种-,其他理论没有的可能。
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And I've drawn a lot of different distinctions about what would you say if you're a personality theorist to deal with this?
我也提出了很多,作为人格理论者或肉体理论者时？
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Well,maybe what the soul theorist would have to do at this point is accept the--da-ta-da--the no branching rule.
在这一点上也许灵魂理论者必须,也接受无分支规则。
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As far as I can see,the best option for the body theorist at this point is to add--no surprises here--a no branching rule.
据我所知，肉体理论者最好的选择就是,毫无意外地，是加上一条无分支规则。
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Or it might be,even as a body theorist, I'll cease to exist but what matters will continue.
或者即便作为肉体理论者，我不再存在，但我看重的东西会继续存活。
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Well,if you don't find the no branching rule plausible, you're in trouble as a body theorist.
如果你觉得无分支规则不可行，那作为肉体理论者，你就麻烦了。
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Well,this is all what we would say as soul theorists if we think souls can split.
这就是我们认为灵魂可分裂时，作为灵魂理论者的说辞。
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So,in the fission case,the body says,the body theorist says, in the fission case,there's splitting,there's branching.
在这种裂变的情况下，肉体理论者说，分裂和分支存在的情况下。
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Well,again,remember,the soul theory says the key to being the same person is having the soul.
请再度记住，灵魂理论者说,作为一个人的标准是拥有那个人的灵魂。
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Now during all of this-- problems for the personality theory, problems for the body view--during all of this, the soul theorist is having a field day.
在这一切之中-,人格理论出现麻烦，身体理论也不免问题丛生，这时灵魂理论者就要窃笑了。
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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
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Suppose the soul theorist answers that last objection by saying,Ain't ever going to happen.
假设灵魂理论者对上个异议的答案是,这事情根本不可能发生。
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So,what does the soul theorist say about the fission case?
那灵魂理论者是怎么解释分裂案例的呢？
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What should a soul theorist say about the fission case?
灵魂理论者对分裂案例是怎么说的呢？
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I think the soul theorist doesn't have an explanation.
我认为灵魂理论者没能解释
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Because, of course, if you're a modest, if you accept the modest version of the valuable container theory, then if the contents get bad enough, that can outweigh the positive value of life.
因为如果你是个保守者，如果你接受保守价值容器理论，那么如果生活内容极为糟糕，它便超越了活着的正数。
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The physical theorist doesn't have an explanation.
物理理论者也没能解释
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That's what the personality theorist said.
这就是人格理论者的说法。
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What's the body theorist to do?
那肉体理论者该怎么做呢？
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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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