Although I've been giving science fiction examples in which the mad scientist duplicates my memories and beliefs and desires,they've all been science fiction examples.

虽然科幻作品中能设定,疯狂科学家将我的记忆以及欲望复制,但都是科幻作品中的例子。

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So although the personality with no branching rule avoids the problem of what to say about duplicates, by saying when there's branching,neither of them is Shelly Kagan, the branching rule itself seems very counter-intuitive.

所以纵然带有无分支规定的人格理论,避开了关于复制的问题，说当出现分支时，Shelly，Kagan就不复存在了，这个无分支规定本身就很反直觉。

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