Ah, then we're on the same page!

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Marek Otahal <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Chetan,
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> As for your hot plate example, I don't think it's the fact that the pain
>> comes 1 second or 1 hour later that makes the difference, it's that 1
>> second's worth of inputs to the brain vs 1 hour's worth of inputs to the
>> brain has been processed before the pain is processed.
>>
>
> Yes, that's exactly what I was saying. From the texts above (I hope) it's
> clear I assume a certain # of (brain) ticks per second. And the stream
> always runs. So, more accurate to say would be, there;s 1000 ticks between
> the touch and pain, contrary to 10^6, say.
>
>
>>
>> One hypothesis is that the brain doesn't need to keep track of time
>> internally, it just has a feel for how much relative time has passed due to
>> how much input it's had to process and learn from since a particular event.
>> Now, I don't know if this is the case, but suffice to say that in NuPIC, we
>> can use time input as just another datum if we need, but if we just want to
>> measure the relative passing of time, we can just let the number of records
>> processed take care of correlating inputs that are close together in "time".
>>
>
> This is what I was trying to say is sufficient.
>
> Cheers, M.
>
>
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