I suspect that tech-induced information overload will make traditional forms of intelligence and memory more rather than less important over time. This is because natural intelligence is far more nimble…
In what format is information stored in the brain?
I was asked this question on Quora.
We don’t really know. But as one of my professors once said half-jokingly, “the brain is a bag of tricks”. There is no reason to assume that all brain regions use the same coding scheme.
Here are some basic concepts that guide how neuroscientists think about information in the brain: