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Mind Matters: Intelligence and Agency in the Physical World

This multidisciplinary gathering brought together the FQXi membership along with more top minds to address foundational questions in this intersection, such as: 

• How is biological intelligence constituted so as to comprehend the physical world, and how is our understanding of physics shaped by the constitution of our intelligence?
• What are fundamental limits to computation?
• What does it mean for agents to make choices in a world ruled by natural law?
• What sorts and levels of intelligence are physically possible?
• Can we have a rigorous theory of informational correlates of conscious activity that would allow us to assess the consciousness of other minds and intelligences?
• How intertwined are intelligence and computation, or intelligence and consciousness, or intelligence and choice/agency?
• Are there fundamental physical principles or analogies that can help us understand the constraints on, or functioning of, mental systems?
• How does mind relate to the fundamental structure of the Universe?