What I've done is imagine a case in which the personality functioning stops before the rest of the body functioning stops.

现在我要做的只是想象一个,人格功能在生理功能停止前停止的例子。

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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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Since what we had here was simultaneously losing both the ordinary body functioning and the special personality functioning, which loss was the crucial one in terms of defining the moment of my death?

我们这里同时失去了,平常的生理功能和特殊的人格功能，失去哪个是定义死亡时刻的关键呢？

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Is it body functioning or personality functioning?

是生理功能还是人格功能呢？

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When does the personality functioning stop?

人格功能什么时候停止呢？

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So look,what I've just been talking about for the last half hour or so is the fact that we've got to get clear, in thinking about the nature of death, as to whether or not the crucial moment is the moment when the personality functioning stops or the moment when the bodily functioning stops.

过去的半个小时,我一直在说我们要搞清，死亡的本质，是人格功能还是生理功能的停止,定义了死亡。

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As physicalist we can still say that the bases of personality is that there're bodies, there're functioning in certain ways.

作为物理主义学者我们认为,人格的基础还是肉体的存在，肉体的存在有很多个性。

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That's why we said on the personality theory,as we went ahead in time, once the P-functioning stops,I don't exist anymore.

这就是为什么根据人格理论的说法，随着时间流逝，人格功能停止，我也不再存在。

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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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In the normal case,I'm in a car accident or whatever it is, and my body stops functioning,my personality stops functioning, and you're left with a corpse.

通常，在车祸或者什么情况作用下，我的生理功能和人格功能同时停止，剩下的就是一具尸体。

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What are the particular processes that underwrite personality or person functioning?

哪些特定的程序,导致了人格功能性的产生？

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Here,my body is functioning, but my personality has been destroyed.

这里，我的身体依旧运作，但我的人格已经被破坏了。

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Star one says death occurs when personality stops functioning.

星号一说，死亡在人格功能停止时发生。

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And it stops functioning in terms of the personality functions.

人格功能也停止时。

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here's the period back here,A,where the body's been functioning, but the personality hasn't started yet.

阶段A中，身体在持续运作，但人格尚未产生。

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