The eye sees a line, a shape, an object.
The visual cortex “abstracts” that line, that shape, that object,
stores it somewhere - suppose on synaptic connection A.
It then moves along to the other lines,
when its characteristics of the same line, shape or object, triggers it.
This is when the eye sees “the abstract” again.
How does the visual cortex retrieve “it”?
“it” is not [concrete] data, it is not a pattern of a set or probability of events;
“it”’s organization is not inherently hierarchical, “it” is like
emptying the line, the shape, the object
and remembering it back again.
“it” is general.
and that might be why
we don’t even know what “it” is
but that doesn’t matter
because learning is inherently intuitive
its new memory should not be forced or dependent on a concrete memory
maybe we can start at a base foundation
and try to build “it” on nothing
where its natural identity
relies on the trigger