Thousand Brains Theory & Hierarchy (Episode 16)
Channel: Numenta
Date: 2019-12-13

The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence says that each cortical column learns models of complete objects. There are many models... models for vision, models for touch.  Cortical columns vote within regions and across the brain to reach a group consensus on object representations. Of all the models in our brains, we are only really aware of the consensus model, which is why we have a singular perception of reality.

Hierarchy plays a different role than we currently model  today's machine learning networks. Watch this HTM School to understand why.