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The brain is the computer, not the genome, no doubt about that. But the genome was not designed but evolved, as a consequence it contains many strange and overl
by teekert 7y ago
The brain is the computer, not the genome, no doubt about that. But the genome was not designed but evolved, as a consequence it contains many strange and overly complex mechanisms that just settled somewhere in a minimum in some highly complex landscape. It would be better to ask what it would take to store everything we learn and act upon it, in the most simple way.
If we are looking for the innate information, we should be asking the question: In how much information can we store the computer, and all machinery that builds it from basic components (molecules basically). It does become easy then to imagine that there is some kind of suckling response, a computer also starts doing things when it is powered up.