This is when the mind tires from the sameness of a repeated experience.

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What I'm considering right now is the question whether sameness of soul is the key to being the same person.

我现在考虑的问题是,同样的灵魂,是否就是成为同一个人的关键。

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Even if there're no souls, we don't have to say that the key to personal identity is the sameness of the body.

即使没有灵魂的存在，我们也不用,肯定人格同一性的关键在于,同样的肉体。

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Where other peoples have seen sameness and continuity, the Greeks and the heirs of their way of thinking, have tended to notice disjunctions and to make distinctions.

别的民族看事物的统一性和连续性,希腊人传承传统思想,看到的多是事物的不同点,进行比较

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So the secret to personal identity on this new proposal isn't sameness of body, is sameness of personality.

所以新提案中人格同一性的关键,不在于同样的肉体,而在于同样的人格。

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But for all that, the key to the same person could have to do with the personality rather than the sameness of bodies.

但这个观点认为，成为同一个人的,关键是同样的人格,而不是同样的肉体。

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Could there be somewhere to get sameness of ? personality while not having sameness of body?

有什么途径可以在没有同样肉体的,情况下拥有同样的人格吗？

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Even though there are souls, they may not be the key to personal identity, maybe sameness of the body is the key to personal identity.

即使灵魂存在，它们也不是人格同一性的,关键，也许同样的肉体,才是人格同一性的关键。

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We could instead say, the key to personal identity is the sameness of the personality.

我们可以说，人格同一性的关键在于,同样的人格。

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We can't say sameness of body gave us the same personality but it was the sameness of personality that made it be the very same person.

我们不能说同样的肉体,就能有同样的人格,但同样的人格才能是同一个人。

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So one thing that are physicalists who do not believe in souls, one thing that physicalist could say is "What's the key of personal identity? The body. Sameness of body.

物理主义学者不相信灵魂论,当被问到,人格同一性的关键是什么时,他们会回答，相同的肉体。

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If we accept this version of the body theory, we say the crucial part of the body for personal identity is not, saying The crucial part of the body is the sameness of brain.

如果我们接受了肉体论的这个版本，我们就承认了人格统一性,最关键的肉体部位并不在于,要人格同一，肉体最重要的部位是,同样的大脑。

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Now the natural alternative is to say, the key to being the same person is not the sameness of the soul, whether or not it exists, ! but rather having the very same--body!

现在还有一个理论认为，成为同一个人的关键,不在于是否有同样的灵魂，先不管灵魂是否存在，而是拥有同样的--肉体！

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And tributary, of course, if you don't believe in souls, if you don't believe in soul's exist, that you certainly can't appear to the existence of souls, the continuative soul, the sameness of soul as the key to personal identity.

还有，必然地，如果你不相信灵魂这回事，如果你不相信它的存在，你肯定无法,进一步相信什么灵魂的延续，无法相信同样的灵魂,是保证人格同一性的关键。

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