I'm not the kind of person who makes it his business to try to explain away those things in physicalist, naturalistic, materialistic, scientific terms.

我不是那种,喜欢用物理主义,自然主义,唯物主义的科学角度,来解释东西的人

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If you have a cold, try to get away from your own selfish perspective, "I have a cold." Look at it from the perspective of the cold virus.

如果你感冒了，试图摆脱掉你自私的角度，我感冒了，从病毒的角度看问题。

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And there are some philosophers and psychologists who do just that, who claim that free will and responsibility and spiritual value and intrinsic value are all illusions; they're pre-scientific notions that get washed away in modern science or you could try to reconcile them.

一些哲学家和心理学家便是如此,他们认为,自由意志,责任,精神价值,内在价值,这些都是幻象,都是些前科学的概念,应当从现代科学中清洗出去,或者你可以试着将二者调和

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