How many neurons must one man have, before you call him a man?

One of the great unsolved problems in science is deciphering the neural code for long-term memory or how the brain stores and represents information. Simply put: How are we that we are? How is longterm memory stored? How is it encoded? How is it lost? Can we hope to build a machine to do what we do naturally? This is an introduction to the both ancient and contemporary problem of the neural code and we explore a series of thought experiments examining how the brain encodes longterm memory and possible theoretical storage limits.