Hi Matt, I’m not sure the question are quite the same. Now that I have a better grasp of HTM I can probably explain my question better.
Just as spatial pooling encodes SDRs representing space, temporal pooling encodes SDRs representing time. Either way they are still the same thing in theory (in my theory anyway…).
We can think of something spatial as being a ‘snapshot’ of something in time. In the cortex something temporal is also represented as a ‘snapshot’. So a spatial pooling of the ‘snapshot’ of a ball in the air (those dumb circles are meant to represent a ball eventually hitting the floor) is equivalent to the temporal pooling of the ‘snapshot’ of the whole sequence - as if it were a single spatial ‘snapshot’.
This is how we can predict far into the future, when enough spatial cues activate the temporal representation of the whole sequence (completion). Its the same thing as if there is enough spatial cues to activate the whole of a spatial representation (completion).
At the end of it all, I suppose space and time are represented in the same (or similar ways), the only difference is dimensionality. Just a theory.