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From The New York Times:
 THIS month, President Obama unveiled a breathtakingly ambitious initiative to map the human brain, the ultimate goal of which is to understand the workings of the human mind in biological terms.
Many of the insights that have brought us to this point arose from the
merger over the past 50 years of cognitive psychology, the science of
mind, and neuroscience, the science of the brain. The discipline that
has emerged now seeks to understand the human mind as a set of functions
carried out by the brain.
This new approach to the science of mind not only promises to offer a
deeper understanding of what makes us who we are, but also opens
dialogues with other areas of study - conversations that may help make
science part of our common cultural experience.
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