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Scientists say the auxin has an indirect effect on buds on the side of the stem to prevent branching.
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If they're going to survive thinking about this case at all, we need to throw in a no branching rule.
如果要让这个案例说得通，我们必须加入无分支规则。
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We need to throw in an extra clause to deal with branching, splitting cases,of the sort that I've just been talking about.
我们需要加一个额外条件，来处理我们上述的分歧案例。
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With simple branching, how long is it going to take to run a piece of code?
但是在简单分支程序中，执行一个程序,要多长时间呢？
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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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Whether or not you find the no branching rule hard to believe, if both views are stuck with it,well,then we're stuck with it.
无论你是否觉得无分支规则很难接受，这两种观点都卡在这里了，我们也就卡在这了。
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Well,then we have to face the problem of what to say in this case of bodily branching.
然后我们就要面临肉体分支的问题了。
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So let's try to choose between the personality theory with the no branching rule and the body theory with the no branching rule.
让我们从带有无分支规则的人格理论,和带有无分支规则的肉体理论选一个。
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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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Both of them,as we saw in the face of fission, needs to accept a no branching rule.
这两种理论在裂变说法的面前，都需要接受无分支规则。
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So to really add to this, we need to have branching programs.
因此为了实现这个功能，我们需要分支式程序。
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So we revise the personality theory to say, the secret to personal identity is having the same personality-- provided that there's no branching.
所以我们对人格理论稍作修改，提出人格理论的秘诀在于-,给人格提供无分支的前提。
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And the only solution that I can see, at least the best solution that I can see, is to accept the no branching rule.
且我看唯一的解决方法，至少是最合适的解决方法，就是接受无分支理论。
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But according to the no branching rule, we can't yet conclude that I'm the same person as the person that was lecturing to you on Tuesday.
但根据无分支规则，我们还不能总结说，我跟星期二,给你们上课的人为同一人。
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I'm inclined to think that the key to personal identity is having the same body, as long as there's no branching,as long as there's no splitting.
我倾向于觉得个人认同感取决于同样的身体，前提是没有分支和分裂。
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Now all we have to decide is,was the branching rule satisfied or violated?
我们要决定的只是分支的规定是否被破坏？
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So we don't need to add,in this ad hoc fashion,the no branching rule.
这样我们也就不用加入无分支规则了。
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With the no branching rule,identity ceases to be a strictly internal affair.
有了无分支规则，认同感不再是严格意义上的内在事件。
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But at other times in my philosophical career, I have found the body theory,that is to say, the body theory with the no branching rule,to be the more plausible theory.
在我哲学事业的另一段时间里，我也曾觉得，带有无分支规则的，肉体理论更为可行。
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Remember last time, I said that there's different kinds of complexity in our code, and I suggested for simple branching programs, the amount of time it takes to run that program is, in essence, bounded by the number of instructions, because you only execute each instruction at most once.
但是这里有个很重要的点,记得上节课，我提过在我们的代码中，有不同种类的复杂度，而且我还说了对于简单的分支程序,运行这种程序需要的总体时间,大体上，是和指令的数目相关的,因为每个指令只会被执行最多一次。
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There was certainly a long period of time in which I found the personality theory, that is,the personality theory with a no branching rule, to be the better and more plausible theory.
有一段时间内，我觉得无分支理论下的，人格理论，是更好更合理的理论。
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So,if you're not willing to accept the no branching rule, if it strikes you as a bizarre thing to throw in to personal identity, maybe you need to reject the personality theory.
所以若你不愿意接受无分支规定，如果你觉得这个人认同感里很奇怪，也许你就需要否决人格理论了。
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But in the case where we've got branching, where we've got somebody with Napoleon's personality both in Michigan and New York, that violates the no branching rule, and we just have to say nobody's Napoleon in that case.
但在有分歧的案例中，在密西根和纽约都出现了拥有拿破仑人格的人，那违背了无分支规则，那样我们就说，他们都不是拿破仑。
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The body theorist should say, The key to personal identity is having the same body, to wit,the same brain,to wit,enough of the brain to keep the personality going-- provided that there's no branching,no splitting,no perfect competitors,only one.
肉体主义者能说，个人认同感的关键就是拥有肉体，也就是说拥有足够支持人格继续的大脑-,在没有分支，分裂以及竞争者的前提下。
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So although the personality with no branching rule avoids the problem of what to say about duplicates, by saying when there's branching,neither of them is Shelly Kagan, the branching rule itself seems very counter-intuitive.
所以纵然带有无分支规定的人格理论,避开了关于复制的问题，说当出现分支时，Shelly，Kagan就不复存在了，这个无分支规定本身就很反直觉。
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