Authors: Gerard Marx, Chaim Gilon.
Many scholars consider that the gap in our understanding of consciousness to be unbridgeable. In our view, memory is the central phenomenon of consciousness. In that we have technical mastery of the memory of computers, many look to computers and its Information Theory as possible models for neural memory.
We point out that the “cognitive information” of neurons is distinct from the binary “information” used in computers; the former represents emotive states that escape binary- formatted formulations. Emotive “cognitive information” is the basis of neural memory, without which consciousness has no meaning. But the core enigma remains:
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