I bring a million preconceptions to bear on what I take to be a simple act of looking.

在我做看这个简单的动作时,我已经有了百万个先入之见。

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You do that eight billion times in your life and you can hit a good top spin backhand.

如果你把这个动作做上八十亿次,那你一定能打个漂亮的反手上旋球

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Frost loves verbal sounds and he loves to play with their metaphorical associations.

弗罗斯特喜欢动作的声音,他喜欢巧妙地用这个打个比方。

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And I have here two ways you could learn from looking.

你可以通过两种方法,从注视这个动作中得出一些结论

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That action potential is initiated here up in this region.

动作电位从这个位置起始

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Now, if you were listing the parts of the body, you would list the teeth, you would list the lips, you would list the gums, you would list the tongue, but you wouldn't list the smile.

如果要罗列完成这个动作牵涉到的身体部位,你也许会列举牙齿,嘴唇,你会列举牙龈,舌头,但你不会列举出笑

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And so when you start to poke around the puzzle pieces, you see that it can say things, we'll see movement in just a moment and sound and so forth, but at the end of the day, this is just like the program we used a moment ago for the sock exercise where we just hold Philip a step after step after step, do this, do this, do that, and yet, here too, we already see an opportunity for that thing we called the loop.

如果你认真看下这些拼图，你会发现它都是一些移动，并发出声音的功能块,就像我刚才的,练习程序一样,我们让飞利浦做这个动作，做那个动作，跟这里的情况一样，我们已经看到了称为循环的东西。

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So, it makes a binary decision, either I create an action potential or I don't, but that decision could be based on many inputs, not just on input from one cell.

所以 这里产生一个二选一的决策,就是产生动作电位亦或不产生,不过这个决定可能是,根据很多输入信号做出的,而不是仅凭单个细胞所传来的信号

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You could use a sign language thing for "Drink" that looks sort of like the act of drinking but you can't use a sign language word for "Country" that looks like a country, or for "Idea" that looks like an idea.

你可以用看起来像喝这个动作的手语,来表示"喝",但你无法用看起来像国家的手语,来表示"国家",或用看起来像想法的手语来表示"想法"

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