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Re:Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain by jpwagner on Monday February 18, 2013 @10:59AM (#5238849) 

  ...are almost certainly going to get the lion's share of this new money.
Not sure why you think that.

Here's the pdf for your link (I can only guess that you find this paper convincing): http://bit.ly/Y2AXtz

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Re:Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain by ihnorton on Monday February 18, 2013 @11:22AM (#5238972) 

  Not sure why you think that.
Because that's how grant peer-review works? Who will compose the review panels for this funding? Mostly the same people who already compose the review panels for existing NIH/NINDS/etc. funding mechanisms.

  I can only guess that you find this paper convincing.
The nanoprobe and "complex emergent properties" stuff at the beginning are a bit hand-wavy, but the concrete 5 and 10-year goals are sufficiently ambitious while certainly not outlandish.
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