Drayna says the GNPTAB gene is present in all higher-order animals and contributes to humans' unique ability to communicate.

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When all goes well, the body is also capable of engaging in higher order personal P-functioning.

当一切都正常时,肉体就能拥有高级的人格功能性。

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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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It is a higher order psychological quality.

那是较高层级的精神质量。

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If we have a higher z effective, it's pulled in tighter, we have to put in more energy in order to eject an electron, so it turns out that that's why case 2 is actually the lowest energy that we need to put in.

而如果有效核电量更高，原子核的束缚也就更紧，我们不得不输入更多的能量来打出一个电子，这就是第二种情况,所需要输入的,能量更少的原因。

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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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Specifically, we have to take in this exact amount of energy in order to bump the electron up to higher energy level.

特别的，我们严格需要,这么多,来把电子，提升到更高的能级。

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