Im sorry, Im just a simple mortal,
pattern recognition and image classification ok, 
wonderful,
what do you think of HTM?
"Hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) is an unsupervised to semi-supervised online machine learning model developed by Jeff Hawkins and Dileep George of Numenta, Inc. that models some of the structural and algorithmic properties of the neocortex. HTM is a biomimetic model based on the memory-prediction theory of brain function described by Jeff Hawkins in his book On Intelligence. HTM is a method for discovering and inferring the high-level causes of observed input patterns and sequences, thus building an increasingly complex model of the world."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory

any original thoughts you could spend on that would be greatly appreciated.