Mind and Machine Intelligence

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bits/min	billions	2000	6
billion calculations/s	~100	a billion	a billion
embodiment	20 minutes	5 billion years	15 trillion years

Human Communication

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

Evolved Relationship with Information

New Flow of Information

Evolved Relationship

Figure: Science on Holborn Viaduct, cradling the Centrifugal Governor.

On Governors, James Clerk Maxwell 1868

\[\text{data} + \text{model} \stackrel{\text{compute}}{\rightarrow} \text{prediction}\]

From Model to Decision

\[\text{data} + \text{model} \stackrel{\text{compute}}{\rightarrow} \text{prediction}\]

The Big Data Paradox

We collect more data, but we understand less.

Wood or Tree

Complexity in Action

Data Selective Attention Bias

BMI Steps Data

BMI Steps Data Analysis

A Hypothesis as a Liability

“ ‘When someone seeks,’ said Siddhartha, ‘then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing. […] Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.’ ”

Hermann Hesse

The Scientific Process

Number Theatre

Data Theatre

The Art of Statistics

Hilbert, M., López, P., 2011. The world’s technological capcity to store, communicate and compute information. Science 332, 60–65. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1200970

Lawrence, N.D., 2010. Introduction to learning and inference in computational systems biology.