Misplaced Priorities? We’re Studying “The Brain” But Not People

The more we learn about genetics and the brain, the more impossiblycomplicated both reveal themselves to be. We have picked no low-hangingfruit after three decades and $50 billion because there simply is nolow-hanging fruit to pick. The human brain has around 86 billionneurons, each communicating with thousands of others via hundreds ofchemical modulators, leading to trillions of potential connections. Nowonder it reveals its secrets only very gradually and in piecemealfashion. – Aeon