Socrates instead spends some time worrying about the question: is the soul really like harmony or not?

取而代之的是花时间,研究一个问题：,即灵魂是不是真的像和声一样？

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He says this is a very nice example for us to think about because some people have suggested, Simmias says, that the mind is like harmony.

这是个很好的例子供我们思考,因为西米亚斯说,一些人推测,精神就像和声一样。

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We've talked about some of these already, having to do with the nature of the harmony-- that pop music tends to have simpler harmonies, and that those harmonies tend to be more repetitious, that they tend to have harmonies that have chords in root position.

我们以前说过，这个问题与和声的性质有关-,流行乐通常用较为简单的和声，流行乐通常用较为简单的和声，流行乐手也大多喜欢用原位和弦。

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If he can convience us that the soul is not like harmony of the body, maybe there will be some sort of problem for the physicalist.

因为如果他能说服我们,灵魂不像是身体的和声,那么就会给物理学家留下些问题了。

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Now I am going to take some time to think about whether or not harmony is a good analogy, because I actually think it is a good analogy.

现在我要花点时间思考,和声是不是个好的类比，因为实际上我觉得它是个好的类比。

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If some invisible things can be destroyed, and harmony is an example of that, then, by golly, it's going to follow that we can't conclude from the invisibility of the soul that the soul can't be destroyed.

如果有形的东西可以毁灭，和声是这样的一个例子，那么接下来我们就无法得出,灵魂是无形的,无法毁灭的。

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