Sahin says researchers increasingly realize that individual parts of the brain have multiple functions." because here's an example of one relatively small part of the brain that's doing three very different things at three different times, but all within the space of a quarter of a second,"

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We have tissues like the brain which are assembled to do functions that are different from any other groups of cells in the body.

像我们的脑组织,它们的功能,就截然不同于身体其他部分的细胞功能

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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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