The idea seems to be that you can't believe in possibilities that you can't picture or imagine.

这个似乎也就是说,人们不能相信,他们无法想象的东西。

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The most important--The most successful people in finance, I believe, end up giving the money away and that means--you can't consume a billion dollars.

最重要的...在金融领域最成功的人士,我认为最终会把钱捐出去,这就意味着...你不可能花十亿美元

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Even if you believe in souls, you can accept the body theory.

如果你相信灵魂论，你也可以同时接受肉体论。

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Still, granted the premise, if you can't picture it or imagine it, you can't believe in it-- Should we conclude, therefore, that you can't believe you're going to be dead?

但让我们仍然基于，无法想象的东西是不能相信的这个前提-,我们就该得出，人不能相信自己的死亡,这一结论吗？

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And tributary, of course, if you don't believe in souls, if you don't believe in soul's exist, that you certainly can't appear to the existence of souls, the continuative soul, the sameness of soul as the key to personal identity.

还有，必然地，如果你不相信灵魂这回事，如果你不相信它的存在，你肯定无法,进一步相信什么灵魂的延续，无法相信同样的灵魂,是保证人格同一性的关键。

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And what the physicalist would need to do for each one of those-- For each one of those you can imagine a dualist who says, "We need to believe in a soul so as to explain seances.

对于这些东西,物理主义者该怎么做,对于这些,你可以想到二元论者会说,我们需要相信有灵魂才能解释通灵

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should we conclude therefore, given that we've got the premise, "If you can't picture it or imagine it, then you can't believe in it," since I've just said, look, you can't imagine being dead, but that's not due to any failure of imagination, that's because there's nothing there to imagine or picture.

于是我们就应该基于这个前提，想象不了的东西就不能相信，得出结论吗“,我刚才已经说过，人不能想象自己的死亡，不是因为想象的失败，而是本来就没有东西可以想象。

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