And so, in certain contexts, I'm perfectly comfortable--in my physicalist moods, I am perfectly comfortable--talking about this person's soul.

而且,在某些情况下,依照我这个物理主义者的心情,我感到很惬意,探讨人的灵魂,我也感到很惬意

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Now,what I've been arguing is that,logically speaking, even if you are a physicalist, that doesn't rule out the possibility of survival.

我现在要说的就是，逻辑上讲，即便你是物理主义者，也无法排除生存的可能性。

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Is there some feature that the physicalist can't explain and so we need to appeal to something extra-physical to explain it?

是否存在物理主义者不能解释的这种特性,使得我们不得不诉诸于,某些超物理的东西来解释

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As physicalist we can still say that the bases of personality is that there're bodies, there're functioning in certain ways.

作为物理主义学者我们认为,人格的基础还是肉体的存在，肉体的存在有很多个性。

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I'm defending, I'm defending the physicalist by saying, "Don't blame us. We don't know how to explain it yet."

说我在辩护,当我给物理主义者辩护时我会说,别怪我们,我们还不知道怎么解释呢

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So these are the two basic positions: the dualist view on the one hand, the physicalist view on the other.

以上就是两种基本的理论,一种是二元论的观点,另一种是物理主义的观点

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In response, the physicalist is going to say, "Yes it's true that bodies don't just move around in random patterns."

然而,物理主义会回击道,对,肉体的确,不仅仅是在做无规则运动

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So it's important, in particular, to understand that from the physicalist's point of view, the mind is not the brain.

因此,从物理主义的,角度理解这一点尤为重要,心灵并不是大脑

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Turn now to the second basic view, the physicalist view, according to which a person is just a body.

现在我们转而讨论第二个基本观念,物理主义观,核心思想是人只是个肉体

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So we need to revise our account of what it is on the physicalist picture to say that you're dead.

我们应该重新修改一下,物理主义学上对死亡的定义。

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There's nothing upsetting or improper about the language of the soul, even on the physicalist point of view.

谈论灵魂并不是什么令人沮丧或不得体的事情,即使是从物理主义的角度来看

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And when I review these various arguments, I come away thinking the better explanation falls with the physicalist.

所以当我考察各种论证时,我不会说最佳解释肯定是,物理主义的

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Each one of us, according to the physicalist, is just a body that can do some amazing things.

我们每一个人,按照物理主义的观点,就是能干出某些令人惊叹事情的实体

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Death is basically just the breaking down of the body, on the physicalist point of view, so that it no longer functions properly.

死亡从根本上说就是我们肉体的损坏,在物理主义看来,肉体再也不能正常工作了

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But not yet seeing how to explain it is not the same thing as seeing that it can't be explained on physicalist terms.

但是不知道,怎么解释并不等于,不能用物理主义解释

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And of course, the physicalist's suggestion is there isn't anything on the other side of the wall.

物理主义者的看法就是,墙的另一边什么也没有

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It would be one thing, if we could see that no conceivable physicalist explanation could possibly work.

我们能看出,所有物理主义的解释都行不通

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So that might tempt you into saying the mind on the physicalist view is just a brain.

这可能会让你觉得心灵,在物理主义那里就是大脑

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I'm not the kind of person who makes it his business to try to explain away those things in physicalist, naturalistic, materialistic, scientific terms.

我不是那种,喜欢用物理主义,自然主义,唯物主义的科学角度,来解释东西的人

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Are there mysteries or puzzles about people that the physicalist just draws a blank, but if we become dualists, we can explain these features?

是否存在某些人类的奥秘或谜团,物理主义对此束手无策,而二元论者,却能解释它们

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But there's nothing mysterious about death from the physicalist point of view, at least about the basic idea of what's going on in death.

但是死亡没有什么神秘可言,从物理主义的角度来看,至少死亡的基本定义是不神秘的

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The question we want to turn to, then, is, "Which of these two views should we believe: the dualist position or the physicalist position?"

接下来,我们的问题是,这两种观点,我们到底应该相信哪一种,二元论还是物理主义

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So that's something there're physicalist can say and for that matter, there is something that a soul--somebody believes in souls could say as well.

物理主义学者可以这么认为,甚至相信灵魂论的,那些人,也可以这么认为。

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When I try to get you to grasp how physicalist think about the mind, I use examples about computers and robots and the like.

当我试图让你们理解,物理学家怎样思考精神，我用了电脑,和机器人的例子。

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Mind you, I don't want to deny that there are some things the physicalist has not yet done a very compelling job of explaining.

注意,我并不否认,物理主义者在某些方面,做出的某些解释不充分

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So I think it's a very nice attempt to discuss the physicalist alternative to Plato's dualism.

因此我认为这是个好的尝试,讨论与二元论不同的观点。

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There's nothing mysterious from the physicalist perspective about the idea that a physical object can break.

对于物理主义来说,物体会损坏是微不足道的

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In contrast to that, we've got the physicalist view, according to which there are just bodies.

与之相对的,是物理主义的观点,认为人只有肉体

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It's not as though the physicalist view is, "We're bodies that have some illusion of thinking."

物理主义并不是说,我们是有思维幻觉的肉体

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Talk about the mind, says the physicalist, is just a way of talking about the body.

物理学家说谈论精神，是谈论肉体的一种方式。

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