# Mind and Machine Intelligence

Comenius Program, Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College

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

## Evolved Relationship

On Governors, James Clerk Maxwell 1868

$\text{data} + \text{model} \stackrel{\text{compute}}{\rightarrow} \text{prediction}$

## From Model to Decision

 $\text{data} + \text{model} \stackrel{\text{compute}}{\rightarrow} \text{prediction}$

• We collect more data, but we understand less.

## 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 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.