You are mistaken in stating (repeatedly, in your article) that humans have "only 20,000 genes." The latest estimates are around 42,600 (e.g. https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-018-1590-2 …). About 1/2 are noncoding RNAs. Plus the number of distinct gene variants is about 325,000. Don't oversimplify.
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Okay, we include non-coding RNAs if you want (though I find the evidence that they are functional to be... sparse). And splicing isoforms of proteins. As
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Have you read Jussi Taipale's commentary on this - covers similar ground, I found it very interesting: https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.201696114 …
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Looks great, thanks!
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You say Shannon information (entropy) is inadequate and “a much better measure program is … Kolmogorov complexity.” but (from your wiki link) “the KC of the output of a Markov information source … converges … to the entropy of the source.” See Ch 3+9 https://jim-stone.staff.shef.ac.uk/BookInfoTheory/InfoTheoryBookMain.html …pic.twitter.com/X1r4E83JVN
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Sure, they often converge. My main point is that neither of them is the most useful measure for the purpose we're after
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I'd say we start with zero. We start with instincts yes, but not knowledge. This of course depends on how youth define knowledge. Knowledge to me is an internal combinatorial response that can only happen post an observation.
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I agree that knowledge is a difficult term to define here, but I certainly don’t mean conscious knowledge. (In fact, I usually put it in scare quotes to show that it’s not the colloquial usage)
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Cool post, nice and clear I’m actually less interested in ‘how much’ you can preload as ‘what sort of things’. I think about prey animals that can walk/run shortly after birth; part of the prior is embodied but there will be nervous system things too, and...
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yes indeed, we have very little idea how we preload the ability to stand or swim, or build a nest, or fear a snake, or butt heads during mating. or have the capacity to learn language somehow these things are in the genome, and read out to form an appropriate circuit. but how??
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