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Numenta Research Meeting – neuroscience / artificial intelligence (AI) / neocortex oscillations
I always assumed high freq oscillations were attention-related. The neocortex is always processing to some degree, 'passively', which makes up 'unconscious' processes that may or may not end up grabbing attention. If they are never reinforced/amplified by sub-cortical control then they just sort of die out as the feedforward up the hierarchy. If the brain is actively focusing on something while actively controlling something via motor then it needs to be able to funnel perceptions into central control/awareness and based on some established previously learned policy generate motor output in response. This would be like playing a racing game or riding a bike and steering based on where you are relative to where you want to go. Once you're no longer motivated to continue engaging this policy (you pass the finish line, arrive at the destination) your attention policy/vectors are updated, likely by the PFC per some overarching goal/motivation that sub-cortical structures are striving to pursue.
The cells could sync up with each other naturally the way pendulums sync when on a swing together. The book sync talks a lot about this kind of stuff.