Secrets of the Brain

I found the article Secrets of the Brain interesting. After taking psychology in the fall semester it furthered my understanding having some knowledge of the topic. I liked how the author put pieces of the article into perceptive to the average reader. For example his comparison of the grain of salt sized area of the brain and it can hold as much data as contained in 25,000 HD movies. That really made stop and think just about how much information can be held in the brain. I also was very interested in how little we know about the brain. With modern technology and the idea we sometimes have that we have everything figured out but we are far from that. We are still in the early stages of mastering the brain. The brain’s purpose wasn't even confirmed until four hundred years ago. A lot of progress has been made on learning about the brain and much more is still to come.  The article does get a bit dry in between the authors main ideas. I feel as if he would lose a reader that didn't care much about science since it does seem a repetitive with his topics of how large the brain is and the dying of certain parts. But he does kept the article interesting by moving to new topics and ending with the robotic arm controlled by mere thought. That was a great way to end the article because it lets the reader imagination go wild with what is actually possible as we perfect our learning of the brain.