More powerful particle accelerators atom smashers, they used to call them have allowed physicists to learn ever more about the sub-atomic particles that are the basic building blocks of all matter.

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And so with these basic building blocks, can you build up much more interesting things and they don't have to be static animations like this.

通过使用这些基础构建模块,你就可以迅速创造出更多有趣的东西,没必要像这个动画一样呆板。

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Now, So, we've talked a little bit about the basic building blocks of the brain "neurons".

到现在为止,我们已经讲到了,大脑的基本单元,"神经元"

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So a person has two basic building blocks.

所以一个人有两种基本构造

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So, what I want to do is start off small, with the smallest interesting part of the brain and then get bigger and bigger and bigger talk about how the small part of the brain, the neurons, the basic building blocks of thought, combine to other mental structures and into different subparts of the brain and finally to the whole thing.

我将从细微入手,从大脑最细微的部分开始,然后逐步扩大,来谈谈大脑的基本单元,也就是神经元,也是思考的基本构造,是如何组成其他心理结构的,又是如何形成不同脑组织的,最终构建出了整个的大脑

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