Notice how the things we are able to speak most concretely about are the things which are most remote from most people’s experience? Memory shares a property w

Notice how the things we are able to speak most concretely about are the things which are most remote from most people’s experience? Memory shares a property with holograms or with lenses/mirrors. If you draw a spot with a marker on one and looks at/through it, you don’t see the spot rather you see a slight loss of image quality across the image. If you wipe out a bit of brain your memories degrade a bit. Somehow the encoding of memory is holographic. We just need a different set of mathematical skills/tools to understand this property. From the point of view of traditional scientists it’s not something they know how to tackle. Personally I think we should look at the brain (and DNA) with a signal processing lens. How data is encoded in the brain is something engineers could answer. Neural networks too are analog computers and spike signals are encoded with a variety of modulation schemes. If we understand those we don’t need to model neutrons the way we do (which is very inefficient, using floating point etc.) but by custom single-transistor analog circuits. That might help advance computation in general...once we understand how the brain is doing it.