4. The network of claim 3 , wherein the spatial pooler is further adapted to: determine, for each of the second set of one or more sensed input patterns, at least a first similarity value based on at least a first spatial co-occurrence pattern and a defined similarity metric; and determine the set of spatial co-occurrence patterns based on the at least a first similarity value.
4. The network of claim 3 , wherein the spatial pooler is further adapted to: determine, for each of the second set of one or more sensed input patterns, at least a first similarity value based on at least a first spatial co-occurrence pattern and a defined similarity metric; and determine the set of spatial co-occurrence patterns based on the at least a first similarity value. 5. The network of claim 4 , wherein the defined similarity metric is a Euclidean distance metric.