How to incorporate goals in HTM: discussion

[Bitking]

I think this post should answer your questions on how the subcortical structures train up the cortex:

Temporal unfolding of sequences

As far as what starts a motor action - I see the need to look at this from a system point of view. In the beginning the lizard brain explores the body through babbling in all the motor circuits. As this process continues the cortex learns the most direct connections to the somatic cortex. As time goes on maps between the motor and the sensory cortex starts to fill in with learned patterns. Later, when we have explored and learned the world, we sense more of the world and this activation diff…

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Survival, goal based learning and HTM

I would extend what you are saying with companion structures that feed stuff in part of the cortex (encoders) and reads related states out (motor drive in the prefrontal cortex) Note that in babies there are phases of babbling (same thing in motor movements) where random pattern explorations are input to motor drives are paired with related sensory inputs. In fact, there are massive feedback loops between body sensors and motor drivers that are trained at this point.