BRAIN Initiative: Will Scientists Unlock the Human Mind?

The human brain is becoming the new frontier in science. On April 2, President Barack Obama proposed an effort to map the brain’s activity in unprecedented detail. The president allocated $100 million of his 2014 budget to a project called the brain Initiative.

The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative seeks to develop new treatments and cures for brain diseases. The White House says researchers will study “how the brain records, processes, uses, stores and retrieves” information.

“As humans, we can identify galaxies light years away, we can study particles smaller than an atom,” President Obama said, “but we still haven’t unlocked the mystery of the three pounds of matter that sits between our ears.”

The human brain is a mystery. It has produced awesome progress in the world, but also incredible evils. Why?

Herbert W. Armstrong examined this mystery 35 years ago in his booklet What Science Can’t Discover About the Human Mind. He pointed out that although human brains are basically identical in composition to animal brains, they produce vastly different outputs. “Science has no explanation,” he wrote, “due to unwillingness to concede even the possibility of the spiritual.”

While it may make significant strides in neurological research, the brain Initiative cannot reveal the secrets of the human mind. However, even on a much more limited budget, you can. Request our free booklet What Science Can’t Discover About the Human Mind, by Herbert W. Armstrong.