Next, Roska plans to discover how the approach-sensitive cells evoke a reaction in the brain.

接下来的研究中，罗斯卡准备找出这种细胞引起大脑反应的方式。

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"It's an alarm system that's as close to the front end of the organism as possible, " says Roska. "If you left it to the brain to respond, it might be too late."

罗斯卡说：“这是一种被尽量安排在人体最前端的预警系统，因为如果让大脑去反应的话恐怕会来不及。

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This problem was solved by Dr Chua's collaborator, Tamas Roska, and his group at the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.

ECONOMIST: Analogue computing

Although they know that by playing with these 19 numbers, they can make the Universal Machine do lots of things, Dr Chua, Dr Roska and their colleagues cannot easily predict which sets of numbers will result in what behaviour.

ECONOMIST: Analogue computing