My inclination is to answer this question with a "no" while I think the panel's collective response is to say "do what now?" Because, after all, what exactly is is to decode a memory?"I think," says Michał Januszewski, "that you want to do, if you want to read out a memory, is to have a learned function which maps some inputs to some outputs." So anything that is a 'memory' will be relative to a specific input? Or do we just generalize, and say any future (brain) state that depends on a past state is a memory. But then, is a behaviour (like a bird singing its song) a memory? There's a lot more along these lines; if you're in education, you should at least consider some of these questions. You can read the transcript (16 page PDF) or listen to the panel discussion as a video.
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