http://dagblog.com/link/obama-seeking-boost-study-human-brain-16207 Comments for "Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain" en http://dagblog.com/comment/174725#comment-174725 <a id="comment-174725"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/obama-seeking-boost-study-human-brain-16207">Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/02/obamas-brain.html">Obama's Brain</a></p> <p>By Gary Marcus, <em>News Desk</em> @ newyorker.com, Feb. 18, 2013</p> <p>[....] What will Obama’s proposed investment in neuroscience look like? Few details have been announced.</p> <p>As it happens, the European Union announced a similarly massive investment in neuroscience just a few weeks ago: a ten-year, one-and-a-half-billion-dollar initiative to build a complete simulation of the human brain. But, as I <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b70cc5d6-6b00-11e2-9670-00144feab49a.html" target="_blank">argued recently</a>, that’s not a realistic goal, and the Obama Administration shouldn’t try to do the same. Another, wiser option would be to marshal our forces on a different project: rather than trying prematurely to model the whole brain, the federal government should invest in understanding <i>the</i> fundamental question in neuroscience, which is how the brain connects to behavior. [....]</p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:03:12 +0000 artappraiser comment 174725 at http://dagblog.com