The Brain Initiative

The human brain is in many ways, just as mysterious as space. It is the organ that has brought the human race to an advanced state that is truly inconceivable when compared to our ancestral species’ accomplishments. The human brain has allowed humans to build kingdoms, let them fall, create massive sculptures, buildings, and computers. It has cured diseases and created languages that are used by all to describe the abstract thoughts we uniquely have. It has led us to great compassion and empathy and it has concocted heinous, intricate crimes. Yet for all it has allowed humankind to do it runs on just twenty watts of electricity, whereas most common light bulbs require about two or three times that wattage. (Washington) To understand the brain
To aid in the possibility of this new era where well-being, prosperity, and understanding reign, the U.S Government should increase funding for The Brain Initiative and its objective to map the brain annually as part of its federal budget. The Brain Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) was started in 2013 by President Barack Obama as part of his plan to create new jobs in research and development in order to drive the future of science and the country forward. The initiative’s goal is to map the human brain. Obama launched the program with an initial investment of one-hundred million dollars from the 2014 fiscal budget. The Brain Initiative’s main goals is to create new technology that would allow them to
There is not a single thing we use more than our brain. Yet, we know relatively little about it. That in itself is amazing because we know a lot about the brain, but not compared to what we could know. Perhaps some of the best reasons to study the brain have not yet even been realized. Any person could probably ask a multitude of questions concerning why they do the things they do or suffer from the things they suffer from and scientists would probably fail to give a perfect answer to any of those questions. To understand the workings of the brain could even entail more efficient computers and technology. Supercomputers are extremely expensive just to run. Between cooling water and the electricity they use it runs into the millions of dollars. The brain could help energy costs by enlightening scientists on how it gets by on 20 watts. With that minimal power, we’ve created an entire civilization, made up of inventions that were once nothing but a thought in someone’s brain(unless invented by accident, which is still an act of the brain). Then, people further used their brains to bring these ideas to fruition and then to guide their hands to create them. Neuroscientists do not have an answer as to how the brain of a worm processes information. A worm has a mere few hundred neurons, to our approximately one-hundred billion. This a true testament to how far we have to go in neuroscience but also to how