How to deal with different timescales for HTM

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@Andrew_Stephan

This is despite the fact that inputs are processed ~ every few milliseconds. But if I were to try running a temporal memory program that sees a thousand SDRs a second and needs to understand events that happen on a timescale of seconds, all context would probably be lost between events.

I suggest this as a floor for perceptual time:

I propose that a single thalamocortical resonance cycle in the cortex is the smallest quanta of human perception.

I propose that a single thalamocortical resonance cycle in the episodic portions of the cortex (those connected to the hippocampus) is the smallest quanta of human experience.

Events faster (shorter?) are collected in one of these time buckets.
These buckets are collected in progressivly larger time buckets as you ascend the hierarchy.

HTMs, Time Locking, and Neural Oscillation (Brain Waves)

The basic HTM theory describes region updates as synchronous, with the SDRs as a static presence during each cycle evaluation; updated whole throughout the region after each evaluation. It is implied in all discussions for predictive dendrite segments (SDRs) that there is a “before” and “after” in regards to global states for the local region; the processing of the SDR neurons in a region could be considered as the evolution of the current region state to the next state as a coherent whole. I d…