That would be a bad design for our nervous system where we want to use cells over and over again, so they're able to recover from this change in potential.

这样的神经系统设计可不怎么样,我们想要能重复使用的神经细胞,所以它们具有从电势变化中恢复的能力

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So that would be a matter of good versus bad design.

所以那是个好模式，坏设计的问题。

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If death was bad for me, that would be a fact If my death is bad for me, that would be a fact and we'd ask ? well, when is that fact true?

如果死亡对我来说是有坏处的，那这就是一个事实,如果我的死亡对我来说有坏处，那就是一个事实，而我们就会问,这个事实什么时候是真的？

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Although it would make me very, very sad to discover this, I suppose it's possible some of you have such bad lives that moving on to the experience machine would be a step up.

虽然我会很难过，我想你们中有些人一生不顺,连接上体验机器可能是个好转。

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But if life would no longer have anything good to offer you, if what you then would have had would have been something negative instead of something positive, then at that point, dying wouldn't actually be a bad thing.

但是当生命再也不能向你提供美好，届时我们面对的是,消极的而非积极的东西，那时死亡可能不是一件坏事。

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