Thirty of them had been identified as having mild autism, a form also known as high-functioning autism.

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During period D, I'm still alive, but I'm no longer functioning as a person.

在D阶段中，我还是活着的，但我不再作为一个人存在了。

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A person,after all,is just a body that's functioning in the right way so as to do these person tricks.

一个人说到底就是肉体的功能,用合适的方式发挥出来。

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Suppose we say then that to be alive as a person is to be able to engage in P-functioning.

假设我们说作为人而活着,就是有人格功能性。

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If we say that to be a person is to be a P-functioning body, it seems then as though we have to conclude that when you're not P-functioning, you're dead.

如果说人是一个有人格功能性的实体，似乎就能得出以下结论,如果你没有人格功能性，你就是死亡的。

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And we can talk, then, about a person as a P-functioning body.

我们可以把人视为拥有P能力的肉体

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