But we can think of cases in which I would survive,

但我们可以设想另一些情况我活下来
but I don't have that extra thing,

却失去了这些东西
and so I wouldn't have everything that matters to me.

我失去了所有对我重要的东西
So as it were,

在这种情况下
we might say,

我们可以说
it might be that mere survival or bare bones survival

仅仅是活下来或是肉体活下来
doesn't really give me what matters.

对我毫无意义
What I want is survival plus something else.

除了活下来我还想要更多
And I tried to motivate this question by having you think about

为阐明这个问题我要请大家思考一下
perhaps the possibility,

如果我们假设
if the soul view was the truth about personal identity,

灵魂理论是人格同一性的正确理论
but imagine a case of

那我们来设想一个