शैडोइंग अभ्यास: Who Am I? - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

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Over a lifetime, all of us change to an extraordinary degree.

From a physical perspective, we start off as a little bundle about 50 cm high, with cherubic features and elastic soft skin.

And then we may end up, some 90 years later, as a stooped, grey, liver -spotted, 180 cm high structure.

In the intervening period, every single cell in our body will have been replaced,

often many times over, and will have gone through all kinds of experiences that perhaps leave almost no trace in memory.

The 25 -year -old won't remember most of what the 5 -year -old felt so strongly about.

The 67 -year -old will only dimly recall what was on their mind as they approached 30.

We carry the same name throughout our lives and consider ourselves as a relatively stable, unitary entity.

But is it really right to think of ourselves as the same person?

Once one puts it under a philosophical microscope, the issue of personal identity emerges as far trickier than at first assumed.

So in what ways could we be said to be continuous throughout time?

What does guarantee that we can plausibly think of ourselves as the same people over a lifetime?

Just where is personal identity located?

A standard assumption is that it's our body that guarantees our personal identity.

This is the theory that a key part of what makes me me is that I'm housed in an identical body.

But philosophers like to push this assumption around a little.

Imagine if I lost all my hair, would I still be me?

Yes, sure.

What if I lost a finger?

Yes, a leg?

Definitely.

Now, what if a malevolent demon appeared and told us that we'd have to lose every part of our bodies, but could keep just one bit.

Which bit would it be?

Few of us would pick our elbow or belly button.

Almost all of us would pick our brains.

Now that tells us something interesting.

We assume implicitly that some bits of our bodies are more me -ish, closer to the core of personal identity than others.

And the most me -ish of all the bits are our brains.

Christianity runs a version of this thought experiment.

It asked us to think what will happen after our death, and it imagines a separation of the body, ultimately not that significant, and the ongoing survival of a more modest,

precious bit that it calls the soul.

There's another version of this thought experiment that two lovers can play.

In the early throes of love, two people who've gone to bed together might ask, what do you really like about me?

The wrong answer is to say your fabulous breasts or your amazing muscular arms.

Breasts and chest don't ultimately feel me -ish enough to be a respectable answer.

It seems we want to be loved for something closer to our real self, perhaps our soul or our brain.

Now let's push the thought experiment further.

What bit of the brain is actually most crucial to being me?

Let's imagine that I have a bump to the head and lose my ability to play table tennis.

Am I still myself?

Most of us would say yes, sure.

What if I once spoke Latin and lose the ability or forgot how to cook asparagus with a light mayonnaise sauce?

Would I still be me?

Yes.

In other words, technical capacities don't feel very close to the core of personal identity.

What about other kinds of memories?

A big part of making me me Tends to be my

store of memories I remember the carpet in my bedroom

when I was growing up or the girl I was in love with at university

or the weather over Sydney as we came into land for my first Australian book tour

But what if these memories all vanished as well?

Could I still be me?

One view is possibly so long as something else remained and that thing we can call my character.

In other words, if my characteristic way of responding to situations, my sense of what is funny,

wise, interesting or important remain the same, I can still in some fundamental way claim to be the same person.

My memory store of feelings and behaviors might be gone, but I could be assured of continuing to feel and behave in compatible ways in the future.

Those around me would need to keep reminding me of stuff that had happened, but they would still recognize me as me.

A fascinating idea comes into view.

Personal identity seems to consist not in bodily survival, I could be put in somebody else's body or live in a jar and still be me,

nor in the survival of memory, I could forget everything and still be me, but in the survival of what we're here going to call character.

This is an idea attributed to the English philosopher John Locke who famously wrote

that personal identity is made up of what he called sameness of consciousness.

If a demon offered us a choice between remembering everything but feeling and valuing very differently,

or feeling and valuing the same sorts of things but remembering nothing, most of us would, Locke suggests, choose the latter.

So, if we have to boil personal identity down to its essence, it seems to come down to values, inclinations and temperament.

Let's think of death with all this in mind.

The standard view of death is that it's sad because it means the end of our identity.

Now, it certainly does mean the end

if we identify identity with the survival of our bodies or with that of our memories.

But if we think that who we are is to a large degree about our values and uncharacteristic loves and hates, then we are, in a sense,

granted a kind of immortality simply through the fact that these will continue to live on in our species as a whole,

lodged here and there, outside of their present home.

Perhaps what we have learnt to call a me was only

ever a temporary resting place for a set of ideas

and proclivities that are far are far older and are destined to live on far longer than our bodies.

We might attempt to be less sad about death by letting go of the idea

that we are a particular constellation of physical features.

We are always in a sense far longer lasting, far more transgenerational as a bundle of inclinations and ideas.

We will continue to crop up and live wherever those ideas

that are most characteristic of us will emerge as they must in the generations that are to come.

Focusing in on questions of identity has the paradoxical

and rather cheering effect of making us both less attached to certain bits of us

and more confident

that the really important things about who we have been will

survive in a way long after our bodies have returned to dust and our memories have been obliterated.

Thank you.

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इस वीडियो में शैडोइंग के लिए 86 वाक्य और 1174 शब्द हैं। बोला गया हिस्सा 7:16 लंबा है। वक्ता लगभग 162 शब्द प्रति मिनट की स्वाभाविक गति से बोलता है, जो रोज़मर्रा की बातचीत के करीब है। 84% शब्द अंग्रेज़ी के 3,000 सबसे आम शब्दों में से हैं; बाकी शब्द अभ्यास से पहले देख लेना अच्छा रहेगा।

इस वीडियो की मुख्य शब्दावली

वीडियो के 15 कम प्रचलित शब्द, उच्चारण और अर्थ के साथ:

experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/ (संज्ञा) — प्रयोग, तजुर्बा. A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of…
guarantee /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/ (संज्ञा) — प्रतिभूति. Anything that assures a certain outcome.
lifetime /ˈlaɪf.taɪm/ (संज्ञा) — ज़िंदगी, जिंदगी. The duration of the life of someone or something.
breast /bɹɛst/ (संज्ञा) — स्तन. Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
demon /ˈdiː.mən/ (संज्ञा) — दानव, दैत्य. An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
bundle /ˈbʌn.dl̩/ (संज्ञा) — गठरी, गड्डी. A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/ (संज्ञा) — दार्शनिक. A lover of wisdom.
finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ (संज्ञा) — उंगली, अंगुल. A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other…
stable /ˈsteɪ.bəl/ (संज्ञा) — गोष्ठ, अश्वालय. A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/ (विशेषण) — अस्थायी. Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
bedroom /ˈbɛdˌɹum/ (संज्ञा) — शयनकक्ष, ख़्वाबगाह. A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
dust /dʌst/ (संज्ञा) — धूल, धूलि. Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, fiber…
remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ (क्रिया) — याद दिलाना. To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/ (विशेषण) — असाधारण, अकल्पनीय. Out of the ordinary; exceptional; unusual.
tennis /ˈtɛnɪs/ (संज्ञा) — टेनिस. A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.

ध्यान देने योग्य उच्चारण

वक्ता 7 बार संक्षिप्त रूपों का प्रयोग करता है, जैसे don't, I'm, we'd। इन्हें वैसे ही छोटा बोलें जैसा आप सुनते हैं।

“sh” और “zh” की ध्वनियाँ: assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/, consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, assure /əˈʃʊɹ/
लंबे शब्द — बलाघात सही रखें: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/

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अपनी आवाज़ रिकॉर्ड करें और मूल से तुलना करें, ख़ासकर experiment, guarantee, lifetime जैसे शब्दों पर ध्यान दें।

इस वीडियो का व्याकरण

वक्ता जिन संरचनाओं का सबसे अधिक प्रयोग करता है, वीडियो के असली शब्दों के साथ:

संरचना	वीडियो में
Passive voice be + past participle — ज़ोर इस पर कि क्या होता है, न कि कौन करता है	have been replaced · be said · be loved
Present perfect have/has + past participle — बीता हुआ काम जिसका असर अभी भी है	who've gone · have learnt · have been

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