It's very hard to keep a body together in O'Connor, well, I won't get in to that.

在她的书里面,鲜有躯体能够保存完整，我暂且不解释这个问题。

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We've got a story in which I'm thinking all sorts of thoughts; my mind clearly exists, and yet, for all that, my body does not exist.

在故事里,我正思考着,我的心灵显然是存在着的,但是,我的躯体却不存在了

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Or I've imagined a story in which my body has perhaps ceased to exist, or I've imagined a story in which I exist, or at least my mind exists.

或者说,我想象着,我的躯体消亡了,也可以说,我存在,或至少我的心灵还存在

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I see my head; I see the reflection of my torso.

看到自己的头,看到我躯体的影像

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Shelly Kagan Whether or not I'm Shelly Kagan,the guy that was lecturing to you on Thursday, depends on whether,unbeknownst to me,over the weekend, somebody removed half of my brain,stuck it in some other torso, sealed me all back up.

我是否是上周四给你们讲课的，取决于周末在我不知情的情况下，是否有人移除我半个大脑放入另一躯体，然后合起来。

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Let me just call this top one-- Jones' torso with the left half of Shelly Kagan's brain-- let's call him Lefty.

让我叫上面的这个-,带有Shelly，Kagan左脑的Jones的躯体-,我们叫他小左。

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