REDUCTIONIST MODEL. “At its heart, a memory is a series of electrical pulses that occur over time that are generated by a given number of neurons…This is important — it suggests that we can reduce it to mathematical equations and put it into a computational framework.”
http://singularityhub.com/2015/11/15/first-human-tests-of-memory-boosting-brain-implant-a-big-leap-forward/