So there's an accident with Johns and Smith.

假设约翰斯和史密斯发生了车祸。

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In many moods--at least,when I think about not the simple, the ordinary David Smith case with a single belief or two, but the full bodied--that's a bad term-- the full blown Napoleon case with all the memories,all the beliefs.

至少我想到的不是，这个简单的只拥有一两个信念的案例，而是完全的，不该这么说-,完整的拥有全部记忆和信念的拿破仑。

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All right,so the thought was,look,this guy over here, David Smith's body with Napoleon's personality-- And let's be clear about this.

好的，这个假想是，这边这个家伙，拥有拿破仑人格的David，Smith肉体-,说得清晰一点吧。

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Smith's torso with the right half of Shelly Kagan's brain,let's call him Righty.

带有Shelly，Kagan右脑的Smith的躯体叫做小右。

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If this happened frequently enough, instead of just a little science fiction story like with the David Smith case, maybe we'd say,yeah,possession is one of these things that needs to be explained.

如果这种事情频繁发生，而不是像David，Smith案例般的科幻故事，也许我们就会说，没错，夺舍是一个亟待解释的事态。

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