Ranch will really like this part from that INCREDIBLELY good book from Jeff Hawkins:
I like how it says a adjustment is needed and the commader above knows what to send back down. Read it if you'rre keen on ignoring the book. It's mostly cus ranch said he liked it I'm posting this.
---The way you memorize sequences and represent them by name as information goes up and down your cortical hierarchy may remind you of the hierarchy of military command. The top army general says, "Move the troops to Florida for the winter." This simple high-level command gets unfolded into ever more detailed sequences of commands as it percolates down the hierarchy. The general's underlings recognize that the command requires a sequence of steps such as preparations to leave, transportation to Florida, and preparations for arrival. Each of these steps breaks down into further, more specific steps, to be carried out by subordinates. At the bottom there are thousands of privates taking tens of thousands of actions that result in the troops moving. Reports of what happened are generated at each level. As they percolate back up the hierarchy, they are summarized again and again, until at the very top of the hierarchy, the general
receives a daily briefing saying, "Move to Florida going okay." The general does not get all the details.
---There is an exception to this rule. If something goes wrong that cannot be handled by subordinates down the chain of command, then the issue rises up the hierarchy until someone knows what to do next. The officer who does know how to handle the situation does not see it as an exception. What was an unanticipated problem to subordinates is just the expected next task on his list. The officer then issues new commands to subordinates. The neocortex behaves similarly. As we will see in a bit, when events (in other words, patterns) occur that aren't anticipated, information about them progresses up the cortical hierarchy until some region can handle it. If lower regions of cortex fail to predict what patterns they are seeing, they consider this an error and pass the error up the hierarchy. This is repeated until some region does anticipate the pattern.
