CLA will predict transitions it has seen so if the current state is green
it will only predict yellow.
On Mar 19, 2014 2:37 PM, "mariolakakis ." <[email protected]> wrote:

> We all know how traffic lights work.
>
> If we would assign numbers to the activation sequence it would look like
> this:
> 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, ... where 1 = Green, 2 = Orange and 3 = Red
>
> According to CLA, predictions are purely mathematical and derive from
> simple probability algorithms.
> Which means that the temporal connections between cells don't count for
> predictions.
>
> In the traffic lights example when Orange lights up (2) given a sequence
> of: 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2 ...
> the prediction union is:
>
> 1 - Green - 3 / 8= 37,5%
> 2 - Orange - 3 / 8 = 37,5%
> 3 - Red - 2 / 8 = 25%
>
> So, after Orange the most likely to light up next  is either Green or
> Orange again which will result in
> the entire human species gone extinct by car accidents.
>
> Why are we still alive?
>
> Is it because in reality traffic lights are being perceived differently
> (after all they are not simple sequences
> but tools of man that we learned how they work) or is it simply because I
> have misinterpreted how CLA
> makes predictions?
>
> Can we understand traffic lights without being told that it's a repeating
> sequence of 1, 2, 3, ... ?
>
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