HTM Mini-Columns into Hexagonal Grids!

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A map is a continuous subregion of the cortex which can form stable hex-grid patterns on its L2/3 layer.
Each stable hex-grid pattern corresponds to the representation of an object/concept at the map level.
The human neocortex is composed of thousands (ten of thousands ?) of those maps, so an object/concept is represented in parallel in numerous maps at the same time (see TBT)

I would offer a minor correction:

A map is a continuous subregion of the cortex which can form stable hex-grid patterns on its L2/3 layer.
Each stable hex-grid pattern corresponds to the representation of an object/concept at the map level.
The human neocortex is composed of about 150 maps, each composed of about a million mini-columns, so an object/concepts are represented as stable grid patterns composed of activated mini-columns in parallel in numerous maps at the same time (see TBT)

Brodmann area

For a more in depth view of maps I offer this post of mine:

Grids into Maps!

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…