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A person,after all,is just a body that's functioning in the right way so as to do these person tricks.
一个人说到底就是肉体的功能,用合适的方式发挥出来。
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Let's just suppose, as seems likely, that none of the P-functioning is occurring, at some point during sleep.
我们就这样设想一下，在睡眠的某个时间点上，没有任何人格功能性。
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The personal aid isn't a National Security offical but a person always knows what the president's schedule is, has his briefing book, his speech, his man, whatever the president needs to just keep functioning.
私人助理不是国家安全部官员,但是他必须知道,总统的行程如何，拿着他的简报，他的发言，他的人手安排，一切总统维持正常工作,所需要的东西。
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If a person's just a P-functioning body, how could it be that after the death ? of his body he's still around?
如果人只是作为人功能的肉体，他的肉体死后,他怎么还会活着？
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And so a person is just a P-functioning body, whether you emphasize the body side there or the personality side of that equation.
人就是有着人格功能的肉体，无论强调人格部分还是肉体部分。
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They were only temporarily not P-functioning, just like we are temporarily not P-functioning when we're asleep.
只是暂时失去了人格功能性，就像我们睡觉时,暂时没有人格功能性一样。
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And as you know,I've defended the physicalist conception, according to which all we are are just bodies capable of doing some fancy tricks, capable of P-functioning.
你们都知道，我认同的是物理主义者的设想，根据这个设想，我们都只是有着机能的肉体，我们能够实施人格功能。
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We might wonder,just when should we say the body functioning really does start?
我们也许会想，身体是什么时候开始运行的呢？
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The mind is just the proper P-functioning of the body.
心灵也只是肉体所拥有的一项特殊的能力
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But talk of the mind is just a way of talking about these abilities that the body has when it's functioning properly.
但是心灵,仅仅是在肉体还能正常工作时,对这些精神能力的一种表述
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And let's just suppose that we're dealing with the normal case, where the body functioning stops at the same time as the personality functioning stops.
让我们假设我们在处理通常的案例，生理功能通常和人格功能同时停止。
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It can't just be a matter of not P-functioning.
肯定不止和人格功能性有关。
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Well,at first glance,you might think the answer is, look,you exist,you're alive,whatever it is--; as I said,I'm just going to be loose now, I'm going to put aside all the careful distinctions I just drew-- I'm still around as long as my body is P-functioning.
一开始，你可能会觉得答案是这样，你存在就是存活，无论;,我现在稍微放松一点规定，我要把刚才提出的区别放在一边-,只要我的身体还有人格功能我就是活着的。
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