Obama to unveil $100M initiative to map human brain

[Jazzy]

President Barack Obama is proposing a new investment into research to map the human brain in hopes of unlocking some of its mysteries, a senior administration official says.



The president planned to propose a $100 million investment for next year during remarks Tuesday morning, the White House said.



Obama mentioned the idea in his State of the Union address, comparing the potential to the Human Genome Project that mapped DNA.



Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy. Every dollar, Obama said in the address to Congress in February. Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's.



Obama wants the research to involve private institutions as well as government agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation. It will require the development of new technology that can record the electrical activity of more neurons in the brain and a study of the ethical implications of the advancements.



A White House statement said Obama would announce the brain research project, known as BRAIN, intended to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind, as well as create jobs.

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Does Obummer himself have Alzheimers???? Did he forget about the sequester? Where the hell is this money coming from?

 

[Evil Eye]

Nowhere? Like all the other money?



It'll probably pay out eventually... Might take 50 years though.

 

[DrLeftover]

OK... let me come to terms with this.



A POLITICIAN wants to spend a bunch of money that we supposedly don't have to Map the thinking processes and memories in the Human Brain.



right

 

[Jazzy]

OK... let me come to terms with this.



A POLITICIAN wants to spend a bunch of money that we supposedly don't have to Map the thinking processes and memories in the Human Brain.



right

Correct and this is why it will never work.

 

[wirelessguru1]

OK... let me come to terms with this.



A POLITICIAN wants to spend a bunch of money that we supposedly don't have to Map the thinking processes and memories in the Human Brain.



right

Yep, reading the mind (thoughts, etc) is the next big step...

 

[wirelessguru1]

Correct and this is why it will never work.

Of course it will work...