Which is just to say, we need to offer a biological/physical explanation of what goes on in near-death experiences.

那也只不过是说,关于濒死体验我们需要给出,一个生物学或物理学的解释

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Or perhaps a better way to put it would be they've had death experiences but then have been brought back to life.

或者一种更好的表述方式,是他们经历了死亡体验,但是之后被带回人世

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Maybe there are certain supernatural things about communication from the dead or near-death experiences that need to be explained in terms of the soul.

也许有某些超自然的关于,亡者或是弥留之人的交流,或是,濒死体验,需要借助灵魂才能解释得通

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Maybe we need to posit the soul in order to explain ESP; maybe we need to posit the soul in order to explain near-death experiences.

或许我们需要假设灵魂存在以探讨第六感,或许我们需要假设灵魂存在,来解释濒死体验

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It can't be that what's going on in near-death experiences is that people are reporting about what it's like to be dead because-- so the objection says-- they never really died.

人们所说的自身死亡时,所产生的濒死体验,是绝对不可能发生的,因为,这种反驳这样说道,他们没有真正死掉

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Still, that doesn't mean that we should believe the argument for the existence of the soul from near-death experiences, because the question remains, "What's the best explanation of what's going on in near-death experiences?"

但是,这并不意味着,我们应该相信那些从濒死体验角度,来证明灵魂存在的论证,因为问题仍在,对于濒死体验的,最好解释是什么

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So attempts to dismiss the appeal to near- death experiences on what we might call philosophical grounds-- this would be the bad notion of philosophy-- on philosophical grounds, I think that's got to be misguided.

因此想要在哲学基础上,驳回这种诉诸濒死体验,这可不是一个好的哲学观,从哲学基础上来看,我想那是不明智的

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So they've had near-death experiences.

所以他们经历了濒死体验

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Take, for example, near-death experiences.

以濒死体验为例

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There's the room of this life, and there's the room of the next life and people who have near-death experiences either temporarily were in the second room or else at least they were glancing into the second room.

这里是今生的房间,那里有一个来世的房间,有濒死体验的人,或者短暂地进入到第二个房间,或者至少对第二个房间匆匆一瞥

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