Universal, online learning in multi-modal perception-action semilattices

A computer program product on a computer-readable medium for interconnecting neural nodes arranged in an interconnection lattice such that a connected node exchanges signals with at least two other nodes via the interconnection lattice, wherein a node comprises one or more neural vertices interconnected via multiple directed edges arranged in an acyclic digraph, each neural vertex comprising one or more neurons, each edge comprising a signaling pathway in the interconnection lattice, the computer program product comprising instructions, which when executed on a computer cause the computer to perform operations including:

• connecting said nodes via bottom-up signaling pathways arranged in an acyclic bottom-up digraph in the interconnection lattice, each bottom-up signaling pathway including one or more vertices and directed edges;
• connecting said nodes via top-down signaling pathways arranged in an acyclic top-down digraph in the interconnection lattice, each top-down signaling pathway including one or more vertices and directed edges, wherein each vertex in the top-down digraph corresponds to a vertex in the bottom-up digraph, wherein each directed edge in the top-down digraph corresponds to a directed edge in the bottom-up digraph, such that information flows along said directed edge in the top-down digraph in a first direction, and information flows along said corresponding directed edge in the bottom-up digraph in a direction opposite of the first direction;
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• interconnecting vertices in the bottom-up digraph to vertices in the top-down digraph using additional directed edges.