来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第9集 第9集》

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  Wherever you've got a soul,
  你只要有灵魂
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  you've got something capable of thought.
  你就有思考的能力
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  I suppose one could try to resist this claim of Plato's,
  我猜也许会有人试着对他的断言提出异议
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  but I find it reasonably plausible.
  但我觉得它是相当合理的
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  I start thinking about minds, and I ask myself,
  于是我开始思考心灵的问题 我问自己
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  "Could there be a mind that was incapable of thought?"
  "会不会有一种心灵是不能思考的"
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  Maybe not.
  也许不会有
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  Maybe that's just built into minds by definition.
  也许那只是一种定义上的心灵
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  Just like you couldn't have something
  就像不可能存在
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  that was fire without it being hot,
  不热的火
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  you couldn't have something that was a mind
  也不可能存在
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  without it being capable of thought.
  不能够思考的心灵