What better suggestion is there for what we could point to as the metaphysical glue, ? the key to personal identity?

还有什么更好的东西,我们可以用来,作为形而上粘质，作为人格同一性的关键？

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And particular, how should we run that if we think about the body as the key ? to personal identity?

特别是，当我们认为肉体是,人格同一性的关键时,对此我们又如何解释？

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As we could have same personality without literally same brain, if personality is the key to personal identity, that would still be me.

我们可以拥有同样的人格,不需要同样的大脑,如果人格是人格同一性的关键的话，那个人还是我。

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We've distinguished three different views as to the secret or key to personal identity across time.

我们陆续已经辨别了三种不同的,关于个人认同感关键的理论观点。

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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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And yet for all that dualists could consistently say, still same soul as not the key to personal identity, same personality is the key to personal identity.

所有的二元论者都可以坚持认为,同样的灵魂并非,人格同一性的关键，同样的人格,才是人格同一性的关键。

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And tributary, of course, if you don't believe in souls, if you don't believe in soul's exist, that you certainly can't appear to the existence of souls, the continuative soul, the sameness of soul as the key to personal identity.

还有，必然地，如果你不相信灵魂这回事，如果你不相信它的存在，你肯定无法,进一步相信什么灵魂的延续，无法相信同样的灵魂,是保证人格同一性的关键。

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