Feedback is too broad. It happens in everything from reflex pathways to
intra regional circuits.

Ian
On Mar 5, 2014 3:28 PM, "Subutai Ahmad" <[email protected]> wrote:

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> I would phrase it as "feedback is fundamental to biological intelligence".
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> --Subutai
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> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Ian Danforth <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> Using the same weights going up and coming down isn't biological but
>> reconstruction in general is fundamental to biological intelligence.
>>
>> Ian
>> On Mar 5, 2014 10:20 AM, "Subutai Ahmad" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>
>>> Yes, that is what the old reconstruction algorithm tried to do. I looked
>>> around and found an old writeup of it which I've attached here.  The
>>> language in it is outdated, but perhaps still helpful?  Section 3 (top down
>>> compute) is the most relevant.
>>>
>>> Historically, we stopped using it in nupic because the classifier based
>>> approach worked much better in the OPF for prediction.
>>>
>>> Also, this algorithm is not at all biologically realistic. However, it
>>> may still be quite useful!
>>>
>>> --Subutai
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Marek Otahal <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> If by the 'old reconstruction' we mean that each block (SP, TP,
>>>> encoder) can process in reverse direction (top-down)? then YES for me. I'd
>>>> have lots usages.
>>>> I'd be willing to mentor this task in SoN.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]>wrote:
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>>>>> In order to use CEPT SDRs with both the spatial pooler and the
>>>>> temporal pooler (rather than just the TP directly), we will need some form
>>>>> of reconstruction. This will allow us to bring back the output of the TP
>>>>> into the original CEPT SDR space.
>>>>>
>>>>> This reasoning applies to any predetermined SDRs that you want to feed
>>>>> into a region and get a prediction for.
>>>>> On Feb 27, 2014 9:37 AM, "Matthew Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is the old reconstruction algorithm a good idea and should we bring
>>>>>> back a working implementation in NuPIC? This is a meaty topic that
>>>>>> Subutai and Ian have started on Github[1][2]. We'd like to have this
>>>>>> conversation here on the mailing list before we create further tickets
>>>>>> and take action.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please chime in if you have an opinion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/pull/421#issuecomment-30059730
>>>>>> [2] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/issues/683
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