I don't even exist on Wednesday I died myself on Tuesday ? How can I kill him after I'm dead?
我星期三压根就不存在了,我星期二就死了,我怎么可能在我死了之后杀了他?
I'm glad you're not dead.
我真高兴你还活着。
So I start by trying to strip off the parts of my conscious life that I know I won't have when I'm dead.
所以我决定开始剥离那些,我知道死后不会有的,有意识的生活的各个部分。
You've got to think about that and what it means and how were they transmitted and preserved without ; the means of technology, obviously, that we have today; and what was so exciting in the middle of the twentieth century was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.I'm sure that you've heard of them.
你们需要考虑到这点及这意味着什么,还有在没有当今我们所拥有的技术的年代,是如何传播和留传下来的;,在20世纪中期时最令人兴奋的就是发现了,死海古卷,我确定你们曾经听说过。
And then, I'm going to skip down a little bit: Though she never again called back any image of the dead man to dress up, pose, talk to and make answer, neither would she lose a new compassion for the cul-de-sac he'd tried to find a way out of, for the enigma his efforts had created.
接下来,我会跳过一些内容往下说:,虽然她从没有想起过,那个死人穿衣、摆弄姿势、,说话和回答问题时的样子,她也不会失去对他的同情,对他尝试摆脱,无路可走的困境所付出的,谜团一般的努力。
Yeah. Suppose I choose it right down there I guess 0. Well, the tangent there will not even have an x intercept. So I'm really going to be dead in the water.
好,如果我选猜想数为0,好吧,这个点的切线甚至和x轴都没交点,所以在这儿这一原则,真的不起作用了。
When I'm dead, I won't exist Isn't that the straightforward explanation about ? why death is bad?
当我死了,我就不存在了,这难道不是对为什么死亡不好,明确的解释吗?
But that seems very hard to believe ? I mean, when I'm dead, I don't exist, right?
但那又似乎太难以让人信服了,我是说,当我死了的时候,我不存在,不是吗?
Because when I try to imagine a world in which I'm dead, I smuggle myself back in.
因为当我想象自己死后的世界时,会再度将自己带入其中。
That's a little bit misleading, given the view I just sketched where even though I'm dead I still exist for a while as a corpse.
这有一点误导人,根据我刚才阐述的理论,即便我死亡,依然能作为尸体存在一段。
If I don't exist,how can it be bad for me that I'm dead?
如果我不存在,那死亡对我又有什么不好呢?
We might say, well, it's not true now Death isn't bad for me now I'm not dead now ? Maybe death is bad for me when I'm dead?
我们可能会说,反正现在不是真的,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我现在又没死,也许当我死的时候死亡对我有坏处?
So I haven't really imagined the world in which I no longer exist, a world in which I'm dead, a world in which I'm incapable of thought and observation.
所以我并没有真正,想想自己不存在的世界,自己死后的世界,一个我无法再思考和观察的世界。
If I'm not P-functioning, do we have to then say I'm dead?
如果我没有人格功能性,可以说我死了吗?
It's like,I mean,I'm dead,but I still exist.
就像是说,我已经死了,但仍然存在。
So it's not, as I say altogether straightforward to see how the answer " "Death is bad for me, because when I'm dead I don't exist" how that answers the problem as opposed to simply focusing our attention on the problem ? How can nonexistence be bad for me?
所以这并不是,就像我说的,那么简单可以领会到这个答案,“死亡对我来说不好,因为我死了我就不存在了“,如何回答了这个问题,和我们仅仅把关注点放在问题本身相反,不存在怎么可能对我来说有坏处呢?
Because,indeed,they don't exist They're merely possible And we might say,you've got to exist in order for something to be bad for you But once we say that it seems we're running towards the position that in that case,death can't be bad for me because of course,when I'm dead,I don't exist ? So how can anything be bad for me?
因为他们其实并不存在,他们只是一种可能,我们由此认为你必须首先存在,某事才会让你害怕,但我们一旦这么说,我们似乎会得出这个结论,这种情况下死亡不可能让我害怕,因为我死了就不存在了,所以我怎么会害怕?
Because it would follow then, that when I'm asleep, I'm dead.
因为这样一来我睡觉时,我是死的。
The central bad thing about the fact that I'm going to die is the fact that because I'll be dead I'll be deprived of the good things in life.
我即将死去的主要坏处,就是因为我会死掉,我生活中美好的事物都会被剥夺。
Well, not now My death can't be bad for me now I'm not dead But it's not 100% clear that the other alternative isn't acceptable "? Why not say,"My death is bad for me when I'm dead"?
至少不是现在,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我又没死,但另一种情况我们也不能百分百,确定是不可接受的,为什么不能说,“死亡在我死的时候对我来说是有坏处的?
Maybe my body--I'm imagining my body dead, but I'm not imagining myself, the person, dead.
也许我能想像自己肉体的死亡,但不能想想自己作为个人的死亡。
Even on the body view,the fact that I exist isn't good enough, ? because I'm not alive.I want to know,when am I alive? When am I dead?
即使从身体理论的角度,我存在并不不足够,因为我并不算活着,我什么时候活着?什么时候是死的?
How could anything be bad for me once I'm dead?
我死后又有什么事情能对我不好呢?
After all,once I'm dead,I don't exist.
说到底,一旦我死了,我就不存在。
Although I am skeptical about that claim, I am going to continue giving it to the person who makes this argument, because I'm not so prepared to admit that you can't picture being dead.
虽然我本身对这个说法表示怀疑,我还是要继续,依照提出的这个论点,因为我还没有准备好承认,人无法想象死亡这件事。
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