And the brain is a remarkably beautiful and complex structure involving cortex, the cortex has maybe over 50 billions neurons and each one is connected to a thousand others and so forth.

大脑的构造漂亮，复杂，让人惊叹,大脑有皮层，皮层中的神经元多大500亿之多,每个神经元都与数亿千计的其他神经元相连。

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Cells that are within the region that becomes the nervous system become less like the zygote and more like the cells of our brain, neurons and glia, and cells of the mature brain.

位于神经发育区中的细胞,变得越来越不像受精卵,而像脑细胞,神经细胞或神经胶质细胞等等,这些成熟的脑组织中细胞

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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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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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