So now it's not just that the on-off switch is stuck in off, the brain's no longer capable of engaging in these higher order P-functions.

所以现在看来就不是开关被卡住，大脑已经不再有能力,实行这些高级的人格功能。

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These P functions are functions that we have by virtue of our brain.

我们依靠大脑才拥有这些能力

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For instance, Merck and Pfizer spent years trying to develop drugs that worked on a mysterious brain chemical called substance P.

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Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has demonstrated that subjects' brains register a preference for Coke or Pepsi that correlates with the product they choose in blind taste tests. (His study is not funded by the cola giants.) The brain of "Subject P" on the monitor in the Human Neuroimaging Lab, for instance, shows he is a Pepsi lover.

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