# Learning how birds teach themselves to sing Dad's song

**URL:** https://discourse.numenta.org/t/learning-how-birds-teach-themselves-to-sing-dads-song/4083
**Category:** Engineering
**Created:** [June 23, 2018, 8:10am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/learning-how-birds-teach-themselves-to-sing-dads-song/4083 "2018-06-23T08:10:29Z")
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### Author: ![sebjwallace](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/sebjwallace/32/6411_2.png) [@sebjwallace](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/sebjwallace)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2018, 11:51am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/learning-how-birds-teach-themselves-to-sing-dads-song/4083/8 "2018-06-23T11:51:37Z")

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> [@David Schneider Interview](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/david-schneider-interview/4076/15):
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> And we need to wire previous motor to current apical _only_ (or with strong incentive) “in the context where output turned out to be less-kwaky”. (=comparison??).

I haven’t really thought about it that far. There are relay connections… possibly using that to play a role.

> [@David Schneider Interview](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/david-schneider-interview/4076/15):
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> Not sure we currently have the fitting implementation for it. Or do we ?

This type of experimentation can only be performed on a hierarchy. The ‘H’ is still missing from HTM, so for now we don’t have a model to experiment on. But it would be nice to develop a ‘general purpose’ hierarchy model that people can experiment with. It doesn’t need to be perfectly inline with biology. The more we can experiment the faster we discover things. That would be one awesome community effort to host on Github.

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