Few long-standing questions about neocortex for the attention of who interested:

[Viktor Kharazia]

a. What is the function of the neocortex? Why it is so prominent in higher
mammals?
b. Is there a foundation of the human intelligence in the neocortex? If it
is, where it might be?
c. Is the anything really unique about cerebral cortex, structurally or
chemically? Something, that can't be found anywhere else.
 
I know, there are not going to be any answers but... 
VK