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by westurner 593 days ago
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...

Methods of intergenerational transfer: DNA, RNA, bacteria, fungi, verbal latencies, explicit training

From https://x.com/westurner/status/1213675095513878528 :

> Does the fundamental limit of the amount of classical information encodable in the human genome (even with epigenetics & simultaneous encoding) imply a vast capacity for learning survival-beneficial patterns in very little time, with very few biasing priors?

> [Fundamental 'gbit' requirement 1: “No Simultaneous Encoding”:] if a gbit is used to perfectly encode one classical bit, it cannot simultaneously encode any further information. Two close variants of this are Zeilinger’s Principle (10) and Information Causality (11).

> Is there a proved presumption that genes only code in sequential combinations? Still overestimating the size of the powerset of all [totally-ordered] nonlocal combinations? Still trying to understand counterfactuals in re: constructor theory

Constructor theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory

(quantum) Counterfactuals reasoning: https://www.google.com/search?q=(quantum)+*Counterfactual*+r... :

> Counterfactual reasoning is the process of considering events that could have happened but didn't.

Counterfactual definiteness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_definiteness

Quantum discord; there are multiple types of quantum entropy; entanglement and non-entanglement entropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_discord

N-ary entanglement,

Collective unconscious > See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious

FWIU memories are stored in the cortex and also in the hippocampus; "Brain found to store three copies of every memory" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352124

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... How do dogs know what not to eat in the wild?
> ... How do dogs know what not to eat in the wild?

They don’t.

Then how have any survived?

Observe the human response to dandelions; are they weeds or are they edible?

Do they have lobed leaves? What [neurons,] do mammals have to heuristically generalize according to visual and gustatory-olfactory features, and counterfactually which don't they have?

Or it's entirely learned, and then the coding for the substrate is still relevant