We could no longer be disappointed, because to be disappointed in something presupposes that it could've been some other way.

我们不会再感到失望，因为对某些事情失望就表明,事情可以是另一个样子。

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Perhaps the argument should be, "We have to believe in souls because no mere physical object, no machine could feel."

而应该是,我们不得不相信灵魂,因为所有物理对象,所有的机器都没有感觉

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And we find there's lots of consumer surplus because the prices are really as low as they ever could be.

并且我们发现有很多消费者剩余,因为价格已经不能再低

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The reason for that complexity is because your immune system needs to be able to respond to all the potential foreign invaders that we could encounter.

整个系统之所以如此复杂是因为,免疫系统需要应对所有,我们要面对的来犯之敌

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Perhaps the argument shouldn't be, "We have to believe in souls because no mere physical object could reason."

也许论证不应该是,我们必须相信灵魂,因为所有的物理对象都不能推理

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Because we think--look, losing a hand the guy could still be alive.

因为我们认为，没了一只手,人还可以活着。

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But the complaint then, or the objection to the physicalist, takes the form that we couldn't be a merely physical entity because no merely physical entity could have free will.

但人们对此的诟病,或物理主义的反驳者认为,人不可能仅仅是一个物理实体,因为物理实体不可能有自由意志

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