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Also Im a bit confused how you would create a program with multiple cortical columns to form a hierarchy. I was thinking 2 cortical columns active cells create 2 sdr’s for the input/proximal connections of a “higher up” cortical column, or does this hierarchy have a different way of working? i imagine you could manually create a hierarchy of cortical columns, with the lower “layer” being the input cortical columns, and then creating a vector of bits of the entire layer maybe (or squash them all into an sdr with the spatial pooler?), and using this as input for columns higher in the hierarchy?
The brain is divided into a collection of small regions about the size of a postage stamp. Current thinking is that there are about 100 of these regions.
I will be the first to agree that naming in neuroscience could be better.
As I understand it, the sheet of the cortex is composed of what is generally recognized as six layers.
The outer layer (one furthest from the center of the brain) is called layer one
The bottom is generally called layer six. These are not hard and fast divisions as the whole concept of what makes up a layer is pretty loose at this time. There are some that consider the thalamus as the 7th layer.
This same sheet of the …
Hierarchy comes from the interconnections between these regions.
This is a companion to the post HTM Columns into Grids
Sure Grids are cool - News Flash- so are Maps! The reinforcement within and between maps goes a long way towards a general solution of the binding problem.
One of the “breakthroughs” for me is that the cortical.io people have formed the SOM all in a single batch. While very powerful this is not biologically plausible; the brain learns online as data is presented to it.
I am thinking that with an attractor model that is formed as the cont…