"When you put that all together it suggest that we are going to need something like 50 percent more, perhaps 100 percent more, food from our existing land and that is a very significant challenge and we believe we need to be thinking seriously about that right away,"

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We need to believe that the soul, unlike an engine, can't itself be destroyed, can't itself decompose, can't fall apart.

我们需要相信的是，灵魂和发动机不同，自己不会毁灭，自己不会腐烂，自己不会变成碎片。

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So maybe that's why we need to believe in souls in order to explain free will.

或许我们需要相信灵魂的理由就是,为了便于解释自由意志

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I believe that and why do we need to have it as a basic premise of the course, '?" as opposed to change is illusive?"

我相信这一点，但为什么我们需要把它,作为课程的基本前提，而不说'改变是虚幻的“

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Maybe at the end of the day we will decide we need to believe in souls.

或许最终,我们会认定我们需要相信灵魂

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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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I've gone through a series of such arguments, and the one that we ended with last time was the suggestion that we need to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain the fact that we've got free will.

我已经讲过一系列这样的论证,上次课结束时我提到的一个论证认为,我们只有相信灵魂存在,才能解释我们拥有自由意志这一事实

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And this is a logical distinction we need to draw, even if you believe in souls.

我们必须得从逻辑上区分清楚,即便你真的相信灵魂的存在。

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So what we now need to ask is, can we possibly believe that revision?

所以现在我们要问的是，我们可能相信那样的修正吗？

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Now as I say, I believe that when push comes to shove, we do need to get clear about both of those questions and so that's going to take the first several weeks of the class.

如果想深入了解这个话题,就必须弄清楚这两个问题,这就是头几周课的主要内容

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