Because, after all, what I just did was imagine my mind existing without my body.

我刚才所做的是想象心灵脱离身体而存在

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Just like, you might say, the old regime in France, the old aristocratic society existing before the revolution, tended to produce a very different kind of soul, a very different kind of individual.

就像法国旧时的政体，存在革命之前的,旧时贵族社会，倾向于催化一种非常不同的灵魂，一种非常不同的个体。

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Because if B was just another word for, another way of talking about, A, then to imagine A existing but B not existing would be imagining A existing but-- well, B is just A--A not existing.

因为如果B只是,A的另一种表达方式,那么认为A存在而,B不存在就是认为A存在但,B,也就是A,却不存在

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