HTM is a Sequence learning system ? right?

[Bitking]

In this post I describe how judgement colors memory to add “embodied judgement”

Brain Building - Q1. Define Intelligence

You are addressing half of what I am describing. Your clarifying that by reducing it to the clinical “drive/affect” makes that clear. The “other” part is the embedded judgement. This is what is missing from current AI attempts like deep learning and symbolic reasoning systems. The common sense that everyone points to as the failing of deep learning. Yes, your memory contains patterns and transition of patterns. But there is more. In the intersection between cortex and the sub-cortical command …

More on “baked in” judgement:

Could Nociceptor be relevant/critical to developing intelligence?

My take is that the old brain structures are configured to work somewhat like a Hopfield or Boltzmann network with each of the nodes being one of the basic behavior states like feeding, fleeing, fighting, mating, seeking shelter, sleeping, drinking, exploring, grooming, nesting, whatever else you can think of. The various body sensors are inputs to this tipping the current state to whatever has the strongest input. The sensory system has memory associated with it that registers the elements of…

Here is the same mechanism set in the larger context:

How does short term memory work?

You did ask about LT/ST outside of the hippocampus and I did not answer your question directly but pointed you to the central nature of the entorhinal cortex / hippocampal formation (EC/HF) in the memory systems. I feel like I left your question less than half answered. There are several interrelated time scales in the memory system. The shortest is actual perception. Say what? Yes - perception is an active recall process. In the first part of perception, cells in the cortex and thalamus ha…