A mental information theory
Résumé
The way information is stored, recalled and processed in the neocortex is assuredly one of the most puzzling enigmas that science will have to solve during this century. This talk will address the question of “mental information” in the light of the most recent developments in information theory, especially distributed error correction coding and decoding. Under some reductionist hypotheses, distributed coding may explain the prominent properties of robustness and durability of mental information.