What we need to really become convienced of the immortality of the soul even if we were convinced, is not the mere suggestion that the soul was around before our birth.

能真正说服我们,灵魂是不朽的,即使我们承认灵魂不朽，并不仅仅是因为,灵魂存在于出生之前这样的推测。

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And the suggestion then might be, no physical object, no mere machine could possibly have qualitative experience.

所以可能有人会说,没有哪个物理对象,没有任何机器能够拥有定性的体验

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