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So that means that we assume that it's better to have limbs and functioning limbs than not to have them.
这意味着，我们默认，有正常的四肢的生活,要比没有四肢的生活好过。
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The structures in the brain which would underwrite the ability to engage in P-functioning, they're not destroyed by suspended animation.
存在于大脑中的,能够支持人格功能的结构，并没有被假死状态所破坏。
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As we learned about how humans operate we could start to design machines that would help humans when they weren't functioning properly.
当我们了解了机体如何运作,就可以设计出器械,在人体某些部位功能失常时提供帮助
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We're left with the central banking institutions that are now functioning without convertibility to gold.
我们现在与那些,现如今运行时没有金子转换功能,的中央银行机构打交道。
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And often, people with autism who are otherwise very high functioning will fail this task.
在某些方面天赋异禀的孤独症患者,也会在该任务上失败
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It's true that when you've got a corpse, you've got all the parts there, but clearly they're not functioning properly.
当你面对一具死尸时,肉体所有的部分的确都摆在那里,但它们显然无法正常运作
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Well,you can't tell by thinking about the normal case, because the B-functioning and the P-functioning stop at the same time.
这从通常的例子中是研究不出来的，因为生理功能和人格功能同时结束。
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What I've done is imagine a case in which the personality functioning stops before the rest of the body functioning stops.
现在我要做的只是想象一个,人格功能在生理功能停止前停止的例子。
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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。
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But if death means permanent cessation of P-functioning, then it turns out the dead weren't really dead after all.
但如果死亡指的是人格功能性的永久停止，那就说明死者并非死去。
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And details aside,death is a matter of the body breaking, so that it's no longer able to engage in P-functioning.
除开其他细节，死亡只是肉体的破坏，以至于不能再实施人格功能。
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But imagine that what's gone on is there's been decay of the brain structures that underwrite the cognitive functioning.
但这样设想一下,大脑的结构正在败坏,破坏了认知能力。
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So it turns out that during that period in which they were dead, they were only temporarily not P-functioning.
那么在他们死去的那段时间，他们只是暂时没有人格功能性。
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When the body breaks some more, you get the loss of biological or B-functioning, and then the body dies.
身体继续损坏，身体功能也会开始消失，肉体就死亡了。
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Suppose we say then that to be alive as a person is to be able to engage in P-functioning.
假设我们说作为人而活着,就是有人格功能性。
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nd I am a body,then presumably the straightforward answer at least is going to be I die when my body stops functioning.
指的是我的肉体，那么最直接的答案,就是我的肉体停止运作的时候。
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Let's just suppose, as seems likely, that none of the P-functioning is occurring, at some point during sleep.
我们就这样设想一下，在睡眠的某个时间点上，没有任何人格功能性。
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So we're going to have to revise the P-functioning or the end of P-functioning theory of death.
我们要修改人格功能,或者人格功能的完结代表死亡这一说法。
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