You could do brain surgery while fully conscious because the brain itself has no sense organs to it.

你完全可以在意识清醒的状态下,接受脑部手术,因为大脑本身并没有任何的感觉器官

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In those moves when I accept the body theory, I'm inclined to say, no, follow the brain.

在我接受肉体论的过程中，我认为，不，应该由大脑决定。

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There seems to be no interesting difference between how the brain comes to acquire and use the spoken language versus a sign language.

似乎大脑在如何获得和使用口语语言,与如何获得和使用手语之间,不存在任何的差别

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So now it's not just that the on-off switch is stuck in off, the brain's no longer capable of engaging in these higher order P-functions.

所以现在看来就不是开关被卡住，大脑已经不再有能力,实行这些高级的人格功能。

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In particular, there is no "You" separable from your brain.

特别是并不存在,与你大脑相分离的另一个"你"

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Well, presumably because whatever cognitive structures it takes in your brain to underwrite the ability to P-function, those cognitive structures have been broken, so they no longer work.

大概是因为,无论你大脑中的什么认知结构,使得人格功能性成为可能，这种认知结构都被破坏了，它们不再继续工作。

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So in the ordinary case,no splitting,follow the brain.

所以在通常的情况下，不会有分裂。

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The issue of psychopathy, of people who, either due to brain damage or because they are born that way, have no moral understanding, can help us cope with questions of free will and responsibility; of the relationship or difference between mental illness and evil.

比如那些精神病人,不论是因为大脑受损而造成的,还是先天性的,并没有道德观念,可以帮助我们研究自由和责任的问题,或是研究心理疾病与邪恶的关系或区别

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The body theorist should say, The key to personal identity is having the same body, to wit,the same brain,to wit,enough of the brain to keep the personality going-- provided that there's no branching,no splitting,no perfect competitors,only one.

肉体主义者能说，个人认同感的关键就是拥有肉体，也就是说拥有足够支持人格继续的大脑-,在没有分支，分裂以及竞争者的前提下。

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