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Really fascinating. Does this mean the world "view" is encoded into the DNA somehow and that then gets transformed into neural activity? How could a few billion
by mindfulplay 5y ago
Really fascinating. Does this mean the world "view" is encoded into the DNA somehow and that then gets transformed into neural activity?
How could a few billion pairs of acids encode such a world?
What's even more fascinating is that emotions, behaviors, imagination and dreams must all be encoded and not learnt with just a billion-odd pairs / bits.
Meanwhile, it takes a few megabytes for us humans to encode a decent Hello World program in a modern programming environment.
- smegger001 5y agocomplex emergent behaviors from simple rule systems is quiet common. conways game of life is derived from 4 simple rules yet shows complex behavior including the ability to operate a universal turring machine. a few hundred megs of instructions seems quiet reasonably able to generate a highly complex system
- anthk 5y agoYou can play Tetris on GNU sed. You can play Zork on a PostScript interpreter by simulating the ZMachine on PS.
- yreg 5y agoThe dreaming doesn't simulate a complex world. As I understand it, it might be something like a simple blob moving around in 2D space.
- l33tman 5y agoIt's just expanding circular waves of activity on the retina. Don't read too much into the articles clickbait headline :)