So on your computer's hard drive are again, a whole bunch of tiny magnetic particles aligned this way or this way.

因此，你的电脑硬盘是完全是,有一簇按照这种方式排列的磁性粒子。

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There are certain laws such that, given that the computer's in this state, it must necessarily move in that state.

存在那样的某些定律,假定电脑处在这种状态,它一定会变为那种状态

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The little clicker then, as I said, there will be an electronic device connected to my computer.

我刚才说了,这种小表决器,就是一种电子设备,连接到我的电脑

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Well, again, it used to be believed that the brain is wired up like a computer, like a PC or a Mac or something like that, but we know this can't be true.

人们曾经以为大脑是像计算机那样,组装起来的,像台个人电脑或苹果电脑,但我们知道这种观点是不对的

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Of course, once you start thinking of it this way, it's natural to talk this way across a variety of things that the computer may be trying to do.

当然,一旦你开始用这种思维方式思考,你就会很自然地把这种思维应用到,电脑可能想要做的其它事情上

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