In other words, all of them are modes of communication with which we function, the intelligibility of which allows us to negotiate the world around us.

也就是说，它们都是我们应用的交流模式，帮助我们理解周围的世界。

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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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