"How does this hunk of flesh, which is not much different from a muscle,you know, it's just a bowl of porridge how does it produce the mind?

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How many changes of the constituent parts can you ? have and still be the same hunk of stuff?

要保持是同一辆车,最多可以换多少部件？

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It's not as though he took the brain out and literally moved that hunk of tissue over here.

并不是说他真的把脑子取出来,把一团脑组织移过来。

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The answer lies in, if only we could know is that the same hunk of stuff or not.

要知道答案，我们就要,我们就要知道是不是同一块东西。

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At any rate, that's what's going on in the car case, same hunk of stuff 1990 to 2006.

无论无核,在车这个例子上，1990到2006年都是同一辆。

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The glue, the key to identity across time for cars, is being the same hunk of stuff.

粘质，作为贯穿时间的车,其质的关键，就是要保持原来的这一大块。

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And talk about-- "Yeah, it's the same" hunk, of medal, and wire, and robot, and plastic, this is the same hunk, the same body.

还有，同样的一个东西，可以是金属，电线，机器或者是塑料，只要是同样的东西，就是同一肉体。

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That's what the key, the metaphysical glue is, being the same hunk of stuff.

关键在于，要保持同一个东西，形而上的粘质是什么。

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And that very same hunk continued into 2000 and it continued into 2006.

这一块东西一直存在到2000年0,又存在到2006年。

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You can replace the headlights and still be the same hunk of stuff.

你可以换车头灯,但车还是那辆车。

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I just want to flag the thought that you can be the very same hunk of stuff, even if some of the constituent atoms have changed along the way.

我只是要树立这样一个观点,就算在过程中，改变了一些原子,还能是同一件物品。

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But for all that, it was the same hunk of stuff.

但着一切，都不改变车是原来的车。

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And the answer, not that there aren't puzzles about it, but the answer is roughly, "It's the very same car if it's the very same hunk of metal and plastic and wires."

而答案，虽然还存在疑问，但答案大致上是，如果是同一堆铁，塑料，电线,就是同一辆车“

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