Chronically traumatised victims often feel a sense of detachment from the self, and experience internal states and reality in an unreal or distorted way.

长期受创伤的受害者经常以不真实、扭曲的方式，感觉到脱离自我，只感受自己内心的经历和现实。

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Absorption is the ability to become deeply engaged in an experience with a narrowing of attention that lessens awareness of distracting internal states or external conditions.

吸收是指一种缩小注意，减少内部或外部条件分心并深深投入某件事情的能力。

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The idea that animalsact only in response to external stimuli has long been abandoned, andit is well established that they initiate behaviour on the basis oftheir internal states, as we do.

认为动物行为仅仅是对外部刺激(externalstimuli)的反射(response)的观点早就被摒弃了，取而代之的是，它们激发行为是建立在它们内部状态(internalstates)的基础之上的，就像我们做的那样。

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Iran's Arabic-language network, which is aimed at a mostly Middle Eastern audience, also ignores internal dissent and criticizes Arab governments along with the United States and Britain.

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And what I mean by this is the behaviorists were obsessed with the idea of doing science and they felt, largely in reaction to Freud, that claims about internal mental states like desires, wishes, goals, emotions and so on, are unscientific.

我的意思是,行为主义者沉迷于“科学“的理念之中,难以自拔,他们主要针对的是弗洛依德，他们认为那些所谓的内在心理状态,如欲望，意愿，目标，情感等等，都是不科学的。

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Consciousness seems to be a mechanism for recursively modeling internal states within a body.

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First, distinguish between feelings, which are internal states, and behaviors, which occur in response to those internal states.

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We are altering internal states, transforming the invisible self or its bodily container.

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