Notice that on the modest view, if we ask ourselves, ? would it have been good to be immortal?

在保守价值容器理论的前提下，如果我们问自己，永生是否是好事？

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So we revise the personality theory to say, the secret to personal identity is having the same personality-- provided that there's no branching.

所以我们对人格理论稍作修改，提出人格理论的秘诀在于-,给人格提供无分支的前提。

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We have to understand the way in which what we do and say, what we write in our papers and articles, is grounded in theoretical premises which, if we don't come to terms with them, we will simply naively reproduce without being fully aware of how we're using them and how, indeed, they are using us.

我们所为，所说，和在论文中所写的内容，是以一些理论，为前提的，如果不接受这些理论，那我们就不过是天真地重复,根本不知道,我们是如何利用它们的。

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We could say that what I've been presupposing up to this point " is the "neutral container theory" of the value of life.

到目前为止我阐述的前提是,生命价值的“中性容器理论。

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That's what the personality theory should say and I said it doesn't seem like a crazy thing to say if we only had the guy in New York.

按照人格理论应该是如此,这么说也不算疯狂,前提是只有这个纽约家伙。

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