for short...to answer that question, we need to get clearer about: What exactly is it for something to be me?

等等这些问题,我们需要先清楚以下问题,我究竟是什么东西

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It's always good when we're looking for a wavelength that our answer is in a unit of length, that's a good sign already.

当我们计算波长时,如果答案是一个长度单位，那就是一个好的迹象。

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That's what the personality theory-- It gives us the answer we're looking for in the ordinary case.

这就是人格理论-,在通常的案例下提供的答案。

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It goes without saying that these are questions that it's impossible for us to try to answer certainly now, but Milton lets us know later in Paradise Lost that Satan was wrong to embark on his dangerous deconstruction of divine power.

毫无疑问，这些问题,我们现在无法给出确切回答，但弥尔顿后来在《失乐园》中告诉我们，撒旦,想要毁灭神权力量的危险行动是错误的。

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That's a nice answer to the problem of fission, but notice the problem it raises for the argument for believing in a soul in the first place.

这对于裂变问题是个更好的答案，但请注意这个答案又引起了新的问题,这就是一开始相信灵魂的存在时的说法。

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Well, maybe the answer is there's no particular time at all when I killed him But for all that, it's true that I killed him ? What makes it true that I killed him?

也许答案是,我什么时候杀死他根本没有确切的时间,尽管如此，我杀死他是真的,为什么我杀死他是真的？

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