and so -- very slowly -- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and free myself of the eye forever.

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You can't peer into your mind and see the fact that you've got free will.

你不能通过窥视自己的心灵,确切地看到你有自由意志

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So, we've got this nice Platonic picture where Plato says, "All right. So the mind can grasp the eternal forms, but it has to free itself from the body to do that."

我们这有一个柏拉图式的场景,柏拉图说,心灵可以认知永恒的型相,但是它必须先从肉体中解脱出来

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