In order to explain life, we have to appeal to something more than just atoms.

要解释生命,我们必须诉诸原子以外的其他东西

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Good. The question was, "When I talk about creativity here, am I trying to build in some appeal to the feeling that we may have when we're being creative?"

这个问题是,当我在这里讨论创造力的时候,我是不是想引入那些"当我们有创造力时,我们可能会有什么样的感受"的观点

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Appeal to a physical body suffices, I think, to have an explanation as to the difference between an animated and an inanimate body, how bodies will move in nonrandom ways.

我认为,如果我们能分辨生命体和,非生命体的区别,理解我们的非随机行为,就足以解释有关物理的肉体的一切问题了

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If that's right, if that's the right thing to say, then what we have to say is, "We don't need to appeal to souls in order to explain emotions and feelings.

如果这是正确的,如果这种说法正确,那么,我们不得不说,我们不需要诉诸灵魂来,解释情感和感觉

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To explain the fact that we've got free will, so the objection goes, we have to appeal to-- we have to posit--the existence of a soul, something non-physical, something more than purely physical.

要解释我们有自由意志这一事实,反驳者会说,我们不得不诉诸,或者假定灵魂存在,这里提到的灵魂是非物质并超出物质的东西

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