Recognition of the pattern sends an active signal up the simulated axon of this pattern recognizer. This axon is in turn connected to one or more pattern recognizers at the next higher conceptual level. All of the pattern recognizers connected at the next higher conceptual level are accepting this pattern as one of its inputs. Each pattern recognizer also sends signals down to pattern recognizers at lower conceptual levels whenever most of a pattern has been recognized, indicating that the rest of the pattern is “expected.”
