There is also very limited space in the DNA strand to wire all that stuff in.There is certainly some stuff wired (fear of spiders etc), probably much of the brain stem connectivity, but not the cortex IMHO.Cortex is an amazing evolutionary invention which is extremely flexible
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My objection about capacity is specifically to "edge-consistency, occlusion, face recognition". Even if we see them as compression,as
@GaryMarcus said, there is too much data to compress here. I consider these problems to be more complicated than synthesizing body parts together.
Am suggesting the genome can help wire together eg systems that understand occlusion innately; this is pretty obviously the case with precocial animals. & genome serves as a compressed building plan that helps structure a rough draft of complex structure (again see my 2004 book)
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I agree that there is an innate mechanism that handles occlusion. It's the same system that handles sensory uncertainty. It's a winner-take-all mechanism that triggers a recognition signal when a minicolumn at the top of the memory hierarchy receives enough signals.
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It works for all types of uncertainty, not just occlusions. It's what allows us to recognise faces in the clouds and focus on a particular voice at a cocktail party. This is what the massive feedback pathways in the cortex are for.
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