I believe that is true. If you make the effort to do the best of what you are capable, trying to improve the situation that exists for you, I think that is success and I do not think others can judge that."

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Since, the Greeks really didn't believe in personal immortality, how do you find what everybody wants?

因为希腊人的确不相信个人的永生,你如何找到他们想要什么

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But in fact, it is not. And so, something I find myself repeating over and over again to myself, to my graduate students, is when you get an answer from the computer, always ask yourself, why do I believe it?

但是实际上，它并不是，因此，我一直一遍又一遍的重复的,给我自己和你们这些学生的就是,当计算机给出一个答案后，一定要问问自己为什么要相信这个答案？

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And again, I'm not gonna go on and on about this point, it worth noticing that even if you do believe that soul exist, nothing stops you from accepting the body theory of personal identity.

重申一下，我不想一直,讨论这个问题，我们得明白,即使你相信灵魂的存在，你也可以同时接受,人格同一性的肉体存在论。

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For those of you who still do believe in the existence of souls I suppose you could take a great deal in discussions that follows as some form of large conditional or subjunctive if there were no souls then here's what we have to say.

如果你们有人,还是相信灵魂的存在,或者你可以从以下的讨论里,也学到一些东西,把讨论看成有条件性和假定性的,假设没有灵魂,然后就是我们要讨论的东西。

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