Saturday afternoon, just north of the protest area, the Thai army spread razor wire and set up checkpoints.

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And in the last 20 years or So, this has been a huge and vibrant area of study where people are trying to wire up machines that can do brain-like things from components that look a lot like neurons and are wired up together as neurons are.

在过去的二十多年里,这是一个非常活跃的研究领域,研究者们试图应用,外表和连结方式均与神经元相类似的元件,制造出具备大脑功能的机器

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And in fact, you can take the wire, the electrode, and hook it up to a lever and teach the rat how to push the lever and give itself a little burst of pleasure.

事实上可以把电线，电极，连接到一个杠杆上，教老鼠,推动杠杆获得快感。

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