I don't actually know exactly what it would take, but you just cut off and snip the relevant nerve endings so that we're no longer able to engage in that higher order thinking.

我不知道手术到底怎样做，但只要切除相关的神经末梢,让我们无法进行,更高层次的思维。

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Because of course,if I haven't had it no wonder I don't remember it but if I have had it,I would have been given that temporary sort of localized amnesia So of course I wouldn't know whether or not I've had it So you ask the nurse ?" "Have I had the operation yet or not?"

因为如果没有手术,难怪我不记得了,但如果手术了，我会被给予那种,短时间的局部失忆药物,所以当然我不知道有没有做了,你就问护士,“我做手术了吗“

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