In the Epic of Atrahasis we do in fact read of a reason, and the text there states, "The land became wide and the people became numerous.

在《阿特拉哈西斯》中，我们确实能找到愿意，土地扩大，人口激增。

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And I mentioned three reason why we want to shift this pendulum despite the fact that there are rising levels of depression around the world, on college campuses in United States,China,Australia,UK.

我提过三个原因,关于为什么要改变这个比率,尽管世界上越来越多人抑郁，遍布美国，中国，澳大利亚，英国所有大学。

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As I said, we've been considering different kinds of arguments for the existence of a soul, each of which appeals to some feature about us-- our creativity, our ability to feel, the fact that we have a qualitative aspect of experience, our ability to reason-- what have you.

我说过,我们考察了各种各样,证明灵魂存在的论证,每一种都诉诸我们的某种特性,我们的创造性,我们的感知能力,当然还有我们定性方面的经验,我们推理的能力,诸如此类的

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