I’m only just starting to scratch the surface of HTM and the CLA, but based on my understanding, the cognitive benefit of training is to expose the soldier to the situations (sequences of input events) they could face, so they can make better subconscious predictions, and therefore decisions, on the battlefield.
The experience, or even simulation, of realistic stress factors - noise, explosions, shout-ey Sergeant Majors etc , increases emotional response and adds some kind of “weight” in some way to certain predictions and potential course of action. This makes me think that rather than “overriding” the lower levels as such, the training increases the chance of certain inputs at those lower levels being deemed as most significant in the lower hierarchy. This leads to different predictions and responses, hopefully more appropriate, than the instinctive response that I, an untrained civilian, might have might have on a battlefield.. ( panic, run away and hide! lol ) I definitely haven’t got my head fully round this yet though, and probably come from a less technical background than most here, so I’d also value others input. Pete On 16 Nov 2013, at 11:40, Stewart Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Soldiers train for years (hopefully). Situations get rough and the training > takes over. > Same for athletes. > > When things get rough am I correct in assuming the lower levels in the > hierarchy become saturated with signals to the point nothing can be made out. > At this point the patterns instilled at higher levels of the hierarchy take > over. > > So at this time I'd imagine motor signals are emitted from these higher > levels. While being able to ignore lower level input and shutting down lower > level motor signals. > > What's your take on this? > Stewart > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my > brevity._______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org
