Because, for the purposes of this class, I'm going to reserve the word "Soul" for the immaterialist conception of the mind.

为了讲课的需要,我会将"灵魂"这个词,留到讲心灵的非物质性概念时再用

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I know very little about how immaterial objects are supposed to work.

我压根就对,非物质的东西如何运作没什么概念

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In the time it takes for one cell division to occur, it could be that this cell entraps a different chemical composition of the cytoplasm then this entraps, and that's a well known concept.

当一个细胞分裂发生期间,很可能这个细胞截留了一种不同的,细胞质化学组分,这种非对称分裂是一个广为人知的概念

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Now--it's important to bear in mind that this view is perfectly compatible with being a physicalist, after all we're not saying that in order to have personalities you need to have something not unphysical.

你们必须牢记，这个论调,与作为物理主义学者的身份,并不冲突，我们并不是说,要接受人格存在的概念,你就必须接受一些非物质的思想。

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