It may also improve a person's thinking ability.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Your P-functioning is actualized now, because you're engaged in thought, but you don't lose the ability to think during those moments when you're not thinking.

你的能力正在被实践，是因为你正在思考，但你没有在思考的时候也没有,失去思考的能力。

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Or we could talk about the various kinds of ways-- this is the physicalist way of thinking about it-- according to the physicalist, a person is just a body that has the ability to fulfill the various P functions.

或者我们还可以探讨更多的表达方式,但以下是物理主义的观点,物理主义认为,人只是,一具拥有实现各种P能力的肉体

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Dementia is a loss of intellectual ability that affects memory, learning,attention,thinking and language skills.

VOA: special.2009.12.28