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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And there's also,of course,in each one of our cases, there's these higher mental cognitive functions that I've been calling the person functioning, there's the B-functions and there's the P-functions.

当然对我们来说，还有更高级的精神上的认知功能,我称之为人格功能，所以就有生理功能和人格功能。

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