And I try to imagine, well, first, imagine being really, really stiff, because you're not flexible when you're a ball point pen.

让我试着想象，首先，想象自己变得非常僵硬，因为圆珠笔是不会动的。

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Because when I try to imagine a world in which I'm dead, I smuggle myself back in.

因为当我想象自己死后的世界时，会再度将自己带入其中。

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Well again, I can say the words, but when I try to imagine that possibility and take it seriously, at least speaking personally, it doesn't--it doesn't hold up.

我能说出这种假设，但当我想象那种可能性,并严肃考究时，起码就我而言，它也站不住脚。

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When we think of the kinds of examples of material machines that we've got available to us in the fourteenth century, I try to imagine what would somebody in the fourteenth century think to himself or herself when he entertains the possibility that a plant might just be a machine?

当我们回想14世纪时期的,各种机器,我试着想象,一个生活在14世纪的人,他,或她,在面对一株植物可能,只不过是一台机器的观点时会怎么想

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I won't think anything. And you try to imagine what it's like to not think or feel or hear or see.

无法思考，请试着想象一下,无法思考或感觉或听或看的感觉。

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Imagine that I try to ask myself, "What's it like to be my ball point pen?"

想象一下我试问自己，作为我的圆珠笔的感觉“

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