This is how the entire world is learned: as a complex hierarchy of objects located relative to other objects. Exactly how the neocortex does this is still unclear. For example, we suspect that some amount of hierarchical learning occurs within each column, but certainly not all of it. Some will be handled by the hierarchical connections between regions. How much is being learned within a single column and how much is being learned in the connections between regions is not understood. We are working on this problem. The answer will almost certainly require a better understanding of attention,
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