So the body theorist can avoid the problem of fission, avoid the problem of duplication by adding the no branching rule.

肉体主义者能避开分裂问题，通过无分支原则，避免复制导致的问题。

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Well,then we have to face the problem of what to say in this case of bodily branching.

然后我们就要面临肉体分支的问题了。

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The problem with--what drove the personality theory into the no branching rule, implausible as it may be,was the fact that your personality is like software,and it can be copied.

看似不可能，但将人格理论，拖入无分支规则的问题就是,人格可被拷贝这个事实。

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So although the personality with no branching rule avoids the problem of what to say about duplicates, by saying when there's branching,neither of them is Shelly Kagan, the branching rule itself seems very counter-intuitive.

所以纵然带有无分支规定的人格理论,避开了关于复制的问题，说当出现分支时，Shelly，Kagan就不复存在了，这个无分支规定本身就很反直觉。

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