An Algorithmic Approach to the Representation of Biological Information and Long-term Memory

Any concept of a long-term, relatively permanent, memory must include a mechanism for encoding episodic experiences into some appropriate format and later retrieving and recreating a reasonable approximation of the original "episode". Psychologists commonly call these processes "consolidation" and "recall" [8]. In this paper, we present two computable functions tht closely imitate these processes. Of necessity, we must posit a recording format. It will consist of a system of cycles which support very high information content and are, furthermore, commonly found as protein polymer structures within the membranes of all our cells.