But the complaint then, or the objection to the physicalist, takes the form that we couldn't be a merely physical entity because no merely physical entity could have free will.

但人们对此的诟病,或物理主义的反驳者认为,人不可能仅仅是一个物理实体,因为物理实体不可能有自由意志

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Doesn't it follow that a soul, an immaterial entity, can't be destroyed by a material, physical process?

而灵魂这种,无形的实体,是否会遵循这个规律被物质,也就是物理过程摧毁呢

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