"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

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But we'll explain in the week to come exactly why and when you do things like that.

但是我们将在下周精确地解释为什么,什么时候我们那样做。

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So let's ask ourselves, "Are there things that we need to appeal to the soul in order to explain these things about us?"

所以让我们扪心自问,有没有这样的现象,需要我们诉诸于灵魂,才能对其作出合理的解释

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How do we explain when babies come to know things that they didn't originally know?

我们如何解释,婴儿何时掌握了原本并不知道的知识

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We're trying to understand exactly what changes in your brain when you learn and how those changes persist over time to support memory. And one thing that we know which helps explain why some things are easier to remember than other is that learning is not a unitary process.

我们一直都想查明，学习的时候，大脑到底发生了什么变化，这些变化是如何长时间控制记忆的,我们都知道，学习的过程不是一元化的,这就是为什么有的东西好记，有的东西难记。

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We make inferences to the existence of things we can't see, when doing that helps us to explain something we can't otherwise explain.

我们推断一些看不到的事物的存在,因为这样做可以便于我们,解释某些我们不相信就无法解释的事情

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All we're in right now is, perhaps in existence of that with regard to consciousness, maybe some other things, we don't yet see how to explain it.

我们现在的处境就是,也许关于意识存在的一些东西,或其他什么的,我们现在还不知如何解释

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Are there things that need to be explained that we could explain if we posited the existence of a soul, an immaterial object, above and beyond the body?

有没有这样的事物,只有假定灵魂,这种凌驾于肉体之上的,非物质实体存在,才能对其进行解释

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