Which is just to say, we need to offer a biological/physical explanation of what goes on in near-death experiences.

那也只不过是说,关于濒死体验我们需要给出,一个生物学或物理学的解释

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When people have these near brushes with death, it's easy to believe that the fact of their mortality is more vivid.

当人们拥有这种濒死体验，很容易相信他们对必死的感受会更深刻。

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Maybe there are certain supernatural things about communication from the dead or near-death experiences that need to be explained in terms of the soul.

也许有某些超自然的关于,亡者或是弥留之人的交流,或是,濒死体验,需要借助灵魂才能解释得通

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Well, if that's the right thing to say about the France case, then why not say the same thing about the near-death experience case?

如果关于法国的例子是对的,那为什么关于濒死体验,我们就不能得出相同的结论呢

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We don't really have very much of a physical explanation until we begin to offer scientific accounts of each of those aspects of near-death experience.

我们并没有什么物理学的解释,除非我们能够对濒死体验的各方面,给出科学的阐释

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Maybe we need to posit the soul in order to explain ESP; maybe we need to posit the soul in order to explain near-death experiences.

或许我们需要假设灵魂存在以探讨第六感,或许我们需要假设灵魂存在,来解释濒死体验

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It can't be that what's going on in near-death experiences is that people are reporting about what it's like to be dead because-- so the objection says-- they never really died.

人们所说的自身死亡时,所产生的濒死体验,是绝对不可能发生的,因为,这种反驳这样说道,他们没有真正死掉

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Still, that doesn't mean that we should believe the argument for the existence of the soul from near-death experiences, because the question remains, "What's the best explanation of what's going on in near-death experiences?"

但是,这并不意味着,我们应该相信那些从濒死体验角度,来证明灵魂存在的论证,因为问题仍在,对于濒死体验的,最好解释是什么

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So attempts to dismiss the appeal to near- death experiences on what we might call philosophical grounds-- this would be the bad notion of philosophy-- on philosophical grounds, I think that's got to be misguided.

因此想要在哲学基础上,驳回这种诉诸濒死体验,这可不是一个好的哲学观,从哲学基础上来看,我想那是不明智的

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So they've had near-death experiences.

所以他们经历了濒死体验

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Take, for example, near-death experiences.

以濒死体验为例

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For my money, I find the beginnings of the scientific explanation sufficiently persuasive and sufficiently compelling that I don't find the argument from near- death experience--as an argument for the existence of a soul-- I don't find it especially persuasive.

在我看来,我觉得这些初步的,科学解释已经足够有说服力,足够令人信服,而从濒死体验的角度,来证明灵魂存在论证,我认为它不是特别有说服力

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There's the room of this life, and there's the room of the next life and people who have near-death experiences either temporarily were in the second room or else at least they were glancing into the second room.

这里是今生的房间,那里有一个来世的房间,有濒死体验的人,或者短暂地进入到第二个房间,或者至少对第二个房间匆匆一瞥

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