If we had this sort of progressive all-radical alteration, not just minimal alteration, but radical alterations of my memory, my beliefs, my desires, my tastes.

如果我们持续经历剧烈变化，不只是最小的变化，而是自己的记忆，信仰，渴望，品味都发生剧烈变化。

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We know it's an illusion, but we get to live in it so comfortably with so little alteration of the nature of the illusion or of the way in which we negotiate the illusory world, that it becomes kind of womb-like and cozy.

我们知道那是幻觉，但是我们活在其中，如此舒适地,基本不去改变幻觉的本质,也不改变我们在这个幻境中生活的方式，它变得如子宫般安全舒适。

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