I'm pretty sure if you threw the number of grad students and GPUs at PGMs or various ensemble techniques, the results wouldn't be very different. Fundamentally

I'm pretty sure if you threw the number of grad students and GPUs at PGMs or various ensemble techniques, the results wouldn't be very different. Fundamentally prediction as we do it is just a form of data compression. I don't think brains work in a way we understand at all (though pieces like visual cortex are well understood).