Because we think once we understand how they work, we could be able to manipulate the mosquito genetically and convert mosquitoes that can transmit malaria into mosquitoes that cannot transmit malaria."

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We could no longer be disappointed, because to be disappointed in something presupposes that it could've been some other way.

我们不会再感到失望，因为对某些事情失望就表明,事情可以是另一个样子。

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Perhaps the argument should be, "We have to believe in souls because no mere physical object, no machine could feel."

而应该是,我们不得不相信灵魂,因为所有物理对象,所有的机器都没有感觉

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And we find there's lots of consumer surplus because the prices are really as low as they ever could be.

并且我们发现有很多消费者剩余,因为价格已经不能再低

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The reason for that complexity is because your immune system needs to be able to respond to all the potential foreign invaders that we could encounter.

整个系统之所以如此复杂是因为,免疫系统需要应对所有,我们要面对的来犯之敌

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Perhaps the argument shouldn't be, "We have to believe in souls because no mere physical object could reason."

也许论证不应该是,我们必须相信灵魂,因为所有的物理对象都不能推理

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Because we think--look, losing a hand the guy could still be alive.

因为我们认为，没了一只手,人还可以活着。

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But the complaint then, or the objection to the physicalist, takes the form that we couldn't be a merely physical entity because no merely physical entity could have free will.

但人们对此的诟病,或物理主义的反驳者认为,人不可能仅仅是一个物理实体,因为物理实体不可能有自由意志

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