And the answer is, unlike many, unlike commercially generated computers, the brain works through parallel processing, massively parallel distributed processing.

问题的答案是这样的,与出于商业目的而制造的计算机不同,大脑采用并行加工的方式处理信息,采用广泛分布的并行加工

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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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