One other point worth emphasizing and sketching the physicalist view is this.

另一个值得一提的物观点是这样的。

Are there things about us that the physicalist cannot explain?

我们是否存在一些物者无法解释的问题？

Physicalists believe there are bodies but no souls.

物者认为 肉体存在灵魂不存在。

So, as I said, physicalists don't deny that there are minds.

如前所说 物者不否认心灵的存在。

So that might tempt you into saying the mind on the physicalist view is just a brain.

这可能会让你觉得心灵在物那里就是大脑。

We don't know how to explain it in physicalist terms.

我们不知道如何从物角度去解释。

There's nothing mysterious from the physicalist perspective about the idea that a physical object can break.

对于物来说物体会损坏是微不足道的。

Physicalists don't deny that there are minds.

物者们不否认心灵的存在。

" My feeling is that the reductionist, materialist, physicalist approach to the world is the right one, " Greene says.

“我个人感觉，融合了还原论、唯物论和物论的方式才是正确的认知世界的方式，”格林说。

In contrast to that, we've got the physicalist view.

物的观点则与之相对。

It would be best if the physicalist could give us that kind of story.

物者要是能够给出这样的解释 那再好不过了。

What's death on the physicalist view?

物认为死是什么？

What is it to die, on the physicalist view?

从物者的角度看 什么是死？

That seems like the natural proposal for the physicalist to make.

这似乎是物者会自然得出的结论。

Now, it's important to bear in mind that this view is perfectly compatible with being a physicalist.

切记这一观点与物者的身份并不冲突。

That's something a physicalist or dualist can say.

这或许是物者或是二元论者的观点。

So that's something that a physicalist can say.

这就是物者的观点。

There are still other alternatives open to the physicalist, but let's come to that other alternative later.

对物者来说还有其它的可能性，这点我们等会儿再说。

It's not the only view available to physicalists or, for that matter, dualists.

这不是物者或是，二元论者的唯一观点。

So we need to revise our account of what it is on the physicalist picture to say that you're dead.

所以我们需要从物层面修正一下一个人死的具体含。