Could the Brain Function Mathematically

Abstract

Authors have put forth a hypothesis that the brain bears the innate capability of performing high-level mathematical computing in order to perform certain cognitive tasks. Authors give examples of Orthogonalization and Fourier transformation and argue that the former may correspond to the physiological action the brain performs to compare incoming information and put them in categories, while the latter could be responsible for the holographic nature of the long-term memory, which is known to withstand trauma. Authors plead that this proposal may not be as strange as it may appear, and argue how this line of mathematical modeling can have far-reaching consequences.