No,according to the personality theory, what personal identity requires isn't item-for-item the same personality, but rather the same evolving personality.
不,根据人格理论,个人认同感并不需要一个完全相同的人格,而是同样在进化的人格。
Now,remember,according to the personality theory of personal identity, what makes it me is the fact that it's the same evolving personality.
请记住根据个人认同感的人格理论,定义我是我的是相同的进化中的人格。
That's why we said on the personality theory,as we went ahead in time, once the P-functioning stops,I don't exist anymore.
这就是为什么根据人格理论的说法,随着时间流逝,人格功能停止,我也不再存在。
In fact,so what we see is,the body theory is in exactly the same problem, exactly the same situation,as the personality theory.
事实上,从我们所见能得出,肉体理论,和人格理论具有一样的问题和情况。
So--does the personality theory has to say Ohoo, different personality, that kid no longer ? exists, that person died.
所以,根据人格论,我们难道说,人格不同了,那个孩子,不存在了,那个人死了。
After all,the problem that fission raises for the personality theory, in a nutshell,is that personalities can split,they can branch.
说到底,人格理论裂变问题的产生,总而言之就是由于人格可以分裂。
So, the personality theory of personal identity can be accepted by physicalists, and it can be accepted by dualists.
因此人格同一性的人格论,既可以被物理主义学者接受,也可以被二元论者接受。
That follows then that this intuition suggests that what I find intuitively plausible is the personality theory of personal identity.
也就是说这个直觉暗示的是,我认为人格理论在直觉上是合理的。
Yet,the personality theory,the objection says, would tell us that he is Napoleon because he's got the beliefs of Napoleon.
然而,人格理论,会告诉我们他是拿破仑,因为他拥有拿破仑的信念。
Now that by the by that somebody who believes in souls could also accept the personality theory of personal identity.
即使是相信灵魂论的人,也可以接受,人格同一性的人格论。
But it's certainly open to you to decide that you think no,no, the personality theory is the stronger view.
但你自己的信仰可以自己决定,你可以决定人格理论更有道理。
So again the point I was just emphasizing was even if we accept the personality theory, this doesn't threaten our being physicalists.
我刚才再次强调的一点,即使我们接受了人格论,也不会和物理主义学者的身份冲突。
For me, the choice boils down to the choice between the body theory of personal identity and personality theory of personal identity.
在我看来,选择范围就缩小到了,人格同一性的肉体论,和人格同一性的人格论上。
Some foe of the personality theory could say, Okay,imagine that this guy in Michigan does have Napoleon's personality.
一些人格案例的反对者会说,那么试想一下,这个密西根家伙确实有拿破仑的人格。
In any event,the fans of the personality theory shouldn't be laughing too hard, because they're going to have to say something similar.
而人格理论的拥护者也不该笑得太早,因为他们要说的也是一样。
Indeed,the fission example is a very nice case of how you could have splitting for the personality theory.
确实,裂变的例子也是个非常好的,解释人格理论中分裂的例子。
Shelly Kagan But if neither of us is Shelly Kagan, then the simple original personality theory was false.
但如果我们都不是,那最初的人格理论就会被证明是错误的。
And that we have to ask ourselves,Well, what should the personality theory say about a case like that?
这时我们必须问自己,对这样的案例,人格理论该怎么解释呢?
All right,so that's the best way for the personality theory to get revised to deal with this problem.
好了,这就是人格理论调整后,解决这个问题最好的答案。
As I say,that seems to me to be the best revision of the personality theory available to them.
刚才说了,在我看来这似乎是,人格理论的最好修正。
After all,if the personality theory is right, since he does have all of these memories,or semi-memories, or quasi-memories,or whatever we should call them.
说到底,如果人格理论是正确的,既然他拥有所有这些记忆,或半记忆,或准记忆,诸如此类的名称。
So let's try to choose between the personality theory with the no branching rule and the body theory with the no branching rule.
让我们从带有无分支规则的人格理论,和带有无分支规则的肉体理论选一个。
One belief,even one very unusual belief's not enough to make somebody Napoleon, according to the personality theory.
仅仅一个信念,即使与众不同,也不足以使某人为拿破仑,人格理论是这么说的。
So the personality theory,follow the personality, is wrong if we say neither of these guys is Napoleon.
所以人格理论所遵循的人格特性,是错误的,如果我们说两者都不是拿破仑。
According to the personality theory or the revised personality theory, that's because I've got the same personality.
根据人格理论,或修正的人格理论,那是因为我具有相同的人格。
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。
So on the personality theory, I did not exist when that fertilized egg came into being, when the egg and the sperm joined.
所以在人格理论上,卵子受精的时候我还不存在,卵子和精子结合时。
It's going to say,look,the personality theory of personal identity has an implication that we cannot possibly accept.
这是说个人认同感的人格理论,含有一个我们可能无法接受的暗示。
Well,if we take the personality theory,we have to say, my body's still alive,but I'm not still alive.
如果我们接受人格理论,认为我的肉体依然存活,但我已经死亡。
That's what the personality theory-- It gives us the answer we're looking for in the ordinary case.
这就是人格理论-,在通常的案例下提供的答案。
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