As we might put it: What is it for somebody who's here next week to be the same person as me?
或者说,现在的我,和下周在这里的我又有什么不同
Same way that I have multiplication or division as a primitive, functions are going to give me, or somebody else who wrote them for me as part of a library, a new primitive that I'm going to be able to use.
我在用乘法或者除法当做原语,这些函数,或者别人写程序库中的函数,将会给我返回一个,我能使用的新原语。
Freud uses it as an explanation for why somebody might eat too much or chew gum or smoke.
弗洛伊德用口腔期人格,来解释为什么会有人暴饮暴食,嚼口香糖或是抽烟。
What is it for somebody in the future to be the very same person as this person who is here now today.
一个在未来的人,和今天在这里的是同一个人,这意味着什么。
Now of course,this is worse for me, as somebody who cares about my friend,that he's died.
对于一个在乎朋友的人来说,朋友死了,当然这个对我来说更坏。
And as a result we can look at those factors and think about what is the perfect situation for making somebody do something like this and the perfect situation not to.
所以我们可以根据这些因素,想出什么样的情况,最有可能让你电死一个人,什么样的情况最不可能让你电死一个人。
So that's something there're physicalist can say and for that matter, there is something that a soul--somebody believes in souls could say as well.
物理主义学者可以这么认为,甚至相信灵魂论的,那些人,也可以这么认为。
The phenomena is known as "emotional contagion, where if you're facing somebody, for instance, and they're they look at you in a face of absolute rage, it is very difficult to just sit there without your own face molding in accord to their own.
这种现象就是情绪感染,例如,你看着某人,他们怒气冲冲看着你,你很难只是坐在那里,不去回应他们的愤怒。
So the question we want to get clear on is what is it for somebody on Tuesday to be the same person as the person here talking to you on Thursday?
所以我们要弄清楚的问题是,下星期二给你们讲课的,和今天,星期四的是同一个人,这意味着什么?
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