The Atomic Human

Neil D. Lawrence

CFI, Cambridge

Henry Ford’s Faster Horse

Artificial General Vehicle

The Atomic Human

E S A R I N T U L
O M D P C F B V
H G J Q Z Y X K W

Bauby and Shannon

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

New Flow of Information

Evolved Relationship

Evolved Relationship

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

Blake’s Newton

The MONIAC

Human Analogue Machine

HAM

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Bandwidth vs Complexity
bits/min \(100 \times 10^{-9}\) \(2,000\) \(600 \times 10^9\)

Epilogue

Thanks!

  • book: The Atomic Human
  • twitter: @lawrennd
  • The Atomic Human pages atomic human, the 13 , Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) 10–12, Bauby, Jean Dominique 9–11, 18, 90, 99-101, 133, 186, 212–218, 234, 240, 251–257, 318, 368–369, Shannon, Claude 10, 30, 61, 74, 98, 126, 134, 140, 143, 149, 260, 264, 269, 277, 315, 358, 363, baby shoes 368, Blake, William Newton 121–123, Blake, William Newton 121–123, 258, 260, 283, 284, 301, 306, MONIAC 232-233, 266, 343, human-analogue machine (HAMs) 343-347, 359-359, 365-368, Human evolution rates 98-99, Psychological representation of Ecologies 323-327.
  • podcast: The Talking Machines
  • newspaper: Guardian Profile Page
  • blog: http://inverseprobability.com

References

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Scally, A., 2016. Mutation rates and the evolution of germline structure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0137