So perhaps in the relevant sense, the person can still engage in P-functioning, so they're not dead. Good enough.

所以也许在相对的条件下，这个人还有人格功能性，他们还没有死，很好。

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Suppose we say then that to be alive as a person is to be able to engage in P-functioning.

假设我们说作为人而活着,就是有人格功能性。

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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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So the crucial thing about having a person is having a P-functioning body.

所以说关键是,人拥有一个具有人类能力的肉体

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Or we could say that a person is a body that is P-functioning.

或者,我们可以说,人就是具有人类能力的肉体

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Of such a person we might say, they're no longer capable of P-functioning.

有人也许会说，他们已经没有人格功能能力。

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And there's also,of course,in each one of our cases, there's these higher mental cognitive functions that I've been calling the person functioning, there's the B-functions and there's the P-functions.

当然对我们来说，还有更高级的精神上的认知功能,我称之为人格功能，所以就有生理功能和人格功能。

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If we say that to be a person is to be a P-functioning body, it seems then as though we have to conclude that when you're not P-functioning, you're dead.

如果说人是一个有人格功能性的实体，似乎就能得出以下结论,如果你没有人格功能性，你就是死亡的。

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If you will P-function again, if you have been P-functioning in the past and you will be P-functioning again in the future, P-functioning for person functioning, you will be P-functioning again in the future, then you're not dead.

只要你还可能再度拥有人格功能性，以前有过人格功能性,以后也会有人格功能性，人格功能性就是作为人的各种功能，你将来能够再次拥有人格功能性，你就没有死。

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To just introduce a piece of jargon, we could call those the P abilities, P for person.

用专业术语来说,我们可以称那些能力为P能力,P代表人

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And we can talk, then, about a person as a P-functioning body.

我们可以把人视为拥有P能力的肉体

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Or we could talk about the various kinds of ways-- this is the physicalist way of thinking about it-- according to the physicalist, a person is just a body that has the ability to fulfill the various P functions.

或者我们还可以探讨更多的表达方式,但以下是物理主义的观点,物理主义认为,人只是,一具拥有实现各种P能力的肉体

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