Because according to the soul theory of personal identity to be me that person's got to have my soul.

以为根据灵魂论,对于个人同一性来说,要成为我,那个人要有我的灵魂。

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Periodically I'll come back and talk about how some issue that we're considering might look form the perspective of somebody who does believes in soul.

我也会时不时,回过头,讲述一些,相信有灵魂存在的,那些人的看法。

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So people are, or people have, or people consist of, bodies and souls.

人是,或人有,或者说人是由肉体和灵魂组成

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A person has a soul, something immaterial and not a body.

人是有灵魂的,一种超越肉体非物质的东西

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That's why we wish--maybe some of us believe, but at the very least the rest of us, many of us hoped--there were souls, so that death wouldn't have to be the end.

这就是为什么我们会希望，也许我们有人相信，但我们之中其他人，我们中的多数人希望有灵魂的存在，那样死亡就不是终结了。

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So somebody is me if they've got my soul.

所以有了我的灵魂的人就是我。

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But even if we didn't think we could show that the soul would continue to exist at least it could, it would make perfect sense to think about it continuing to exist.

但即使我们不觉得,我们能证明灵魂继续存在,至少有这个可能，认为灵魂不死,对很多人来说很有意义。

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It's got to be the case to prove that we've got a soul-- at least for this argument to work to prove that we've got a soul-- it's got to be the case that we've got free will.

必须要有事实证明我们有灵魂,至少是为了能够证明这个论证,人是有灵魂的,必须要有事实证明我们有自由意志

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