[bjornsing]

You’d have to explain where that innate knowledge is stored though. The entire human genome is less than a GB if I remember correctly. Some of that being allocated to ”priors” for neural circuit development seems reasonable, but it can’t be very detailed across everything a brain does. The rest of the body needs some bytes too.

[arcwhite]

Not really - that 1GB is the seed for a procedural generation mechanism that has been finely tuned to its unfolding in an environment over 4 billion years.

DNA is the ultimate demoscene exe

[bjornsing]

Sure. But that’s just compression, right? I guess you could argue that some information is stored outside the genome, in the structure of proteins etc. But the counter argument is that that information is quickly lost in cell divisions. Only DNA has the error correcting mechanisms needed to reliably store information, is my impression.