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“The BRAIN ((Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) 
initiative is a very ambitious, and perhaps even noble, effort, and I am most 
definitely not against imaging or nanotechnology as tools for research.

But, without specific goals, hypotheses or endpoints, the research effort 
becomes a fishing expedition. That is, if we throw enough technology at the 
project and get enough people involved, something is sure to come of it — maybe.

..............in a recent New York Times article, John Markoff and James Gorman 
rightly pointed out that, “It is different however, in that it has, as yet, no 
clearly defined goals or endpoint.”




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