(OMITTED) To highlight the need to understand diverse cultures, Arab-American comedian Ahmed Ahmed offered his personal experience with stereotypes about Arabs.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

And we need to get clear on the nature of identity or persistence or, more specifically, personal identity.

同时还要弄清同一性及,持存的本质,具体说来就是,个人同一性

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And if we are not willing to accept that implication, it seems as though we need to reject the soul theory of personal identity.

如果我们不愿,接受这种结论，似乎,我们就需要拒绝承认,人格同一性的灵魂论。

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To think about which one of these is the key to personal identity, we need to think about the cases maybe somewhat fantastical science fictioning in which they come apart.

想要思考哪一个,才是人格同一性的关键,就必须构思一些更奇妙的案例,得用科学幻想把这些理论独立开。

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So,if you're not willing to accept the no branching rule, if it strikes you as a bizarre thing to throw in to personal identity, maybe you need to reject the personality theory.

所以若你不愿意接受无分支规定，如果你觉得这个人认同感里很奇怪，也许你就需要否决人格理论了。

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