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But the human genome is only 3 gigabytes and the vast majority of that is unlikely to be encoding brain structure.
by georgeg23 3y ago
But the human genome is only 3 gigabytes and the vast majority of that is unlikely to be encoding brain structure.
- retrac 3y ago"Only" 3 gigabytes. The lambda calculus (a system we know is capable of infinite self-complexity, learning, etc. with the right program) can be described in a few hundred bits. And a neural net can be described in the lambda calculus in perhaps a few thousand bits. Also, we have no idea how "compressed" the genome is.
- georgeg23 3y agoBasic structure can be encoded yes (and obviously is given brains have consistent structure), but the weights or parameters, presuming that brains learn via synaptic weights, obviously do not fit in the genome. Compression still must obey information theory.