Many years ago I attended a talk by Bernard Widrow (discovered/invented a precursor to the backpropagation algorithm; i.e. the least mean squares filter) [1].

Many years ago I attended a talk by Bernard Widrow (discovered/invented a precursor to the backpropagation algorithm; i.e. the least mean squares filter) [1]. He believed that long-term memories are stored in DNA [2]. At the time, I and others thought he was completely wrong. Maybe it is not such a crazy idea. Code is data, after all (especially if our brains are written in LISP). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Widrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Widrow [2] https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee373b/cognitive_memory2.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee373b/cognitive_memory2.pdf