[jackric]

> The entire human body is built from 700MB of data in the DNA.

I think this notion is misleading. It doesn't relate to the ease of simulation it on our current computers. You'll need a quantum computer to emulate this ROM in anything like realtime.

The DNA program was optimised to execute in an environment offering quantum tunnelling, multi component chemical reactions etc.

[nojvek]

My point wasn’t to emulate the DNA in a virtual machine. The point was that between humans and chimps (our closest DNA relatives) we’re 99% same to them. So high order intelligence that gives rise to written language and tool building is somewhere in that 700MB of DNA code. And 1% of that (just 7MB) is responsible for creating the smartest intelligence we know (humans).

In that sense intelligence artchitecture isn’t very complicated. The uniformity of isocortex which we have the most relative to our brain size compared to any animal says we ought to replicate its behavior in a machine.

The isocortex/neocortex is where the gold is. It’s very uniform when seen under microscopes. Brain cells from one region can be put in another region and they work just fine. All of ^ says intelligence is some recursive architecture of information processing. That’s why I’m optimistic we’ll crack it.

[ZeikJT]

I think what the parent was saying is important though, that 700mb of "data" isn't complete. It's basically just really really good compression that requires the runtime of our universe to work properly. The way proteins form and interact, the way physics works, etc are all requirements for that DNA to be able to realize itself as complex thinking human beings.

[jackric]

Yes you rephrased that very well.

If your plan to build intelligence is by copying how nature does it, well then you'll need to build a "nature" runtime that can emulate the universe. You can either do that slowly or inaccurately