Complex sentence: However, functions of the brain are more temporally precise than mere rate encoding would seem to allow; in other words, essential information would be lost due to the inability of the rate code to capture all of the available information in the spike train.
Split into simpler sentences: However, functions of the brain are more temporally precise than mere rate encoding would seem to allow. In other words, essential information would be lost due to the inability of the rate code to capture all the available information of the spike train.