
How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past
The Quanta Podcast
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The Inverse Laplace Transform of Time
Time is such an elusive property. To encode time, the brain has to do something less direct. Pinpointing what that looked like at the level of neurons became Howard and Shankar's goal. If their equations are implemented by neurons, they could be used to describe not just the encoding of time, but also a slew of other properties - even thought itself.
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