Topologies in the brain and how to model them

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@Jose_Cueto

What would be the major difference between HTM with topology model and highly distributed localized HTM models?

The topology needs to be local, but far-reaching. The current “minicolumn neighborhood” calculations can create topological projections of minicolumns through a sensory space based on a simple distance metric. This works fine for us to simulate inhibition and minicolumn competitions, but we need another topology so that the cortical columns can vote together. These two topologies are not the same thing. (I’m guessing the latter might be a small world style topology, with some local and some far-reaching connections.)