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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But at the end of the day, and here's why we just went with binary and not decimal years ago, when you have one implement a computer with a physical device, it's actually really easy to represent the notion of on or off.

但是最终，之前我们采用二进制,而不是十进制，主要是因为当我们用一台实体机器运行计算机时，这实际上很容易用开或者关的概念来表示。

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