personality started.

我才存在
And that certainly wasn't true way back at the start of A,

这在A阶段开始时显然不成立
as the fertilized egg first begins to split and multiply,

那时受精卵刚开始分裂繁殖
subdivide and make organs.

分化并且形成器官
It's a good long time

直到很长时间以后
till any kind of mental processing occurs at all.

才出现一些精神活动
So on the personality theory,

所以根据人格理论
I did not exist when that fertilized egg came into being,

我在受精卵形成时并不存在
when the egg and the sperm joined.

当卵子和精子结合
That's still not me, on the personality theory.

根据人格理论那还不是我
Clearly, these issues are relevant for thinking about the morality of abortion.

很明显这与堕胎的道德问题有联系
I'm not going to pursue them here,

我不打算在这儿继续深入探讨下去