What is the exact biological fact which justifies the existence of the potential pool?

[rhyolight]

FYI, see my definition of these terms:

Some animations explaining columns and SP

Sam, this is great stuff. I’m also starting to think about SP visualizations. I like the direction you are taking. I hope you don’t mind if I end up taking some design ideas for my work? Also, since you are using the terms “potential pool” and “receptive field”… This topic recently came up in a meeting, and I think @subutai and I agree that there is a subtle different in these terms. potential pool: Possible connections from a mini-column in the SP to an input space. Could be represented as…

I’m sticking with these terms as I draft out sections for BHTMS.