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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And as you know,I've defended the physicalist conception, according to which all we are are just bodies capable of doing some fancy tricks, capable of P-functioning.

你们都知道，我认同的是物理主义者的设想，根据这个设想，我们都只是有着机能的肉体，我们能够实施人格功能。

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Of such a person we might say, they're no longer capable of P-functioning.

有人也许会说，他们已经没有人格功能能力。

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