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Comment by dboreham

> DNA can't contain human culture

Furthermore: My conjecture is that DNA doesn't contain any "training data". There's no data path for information to get from an organism's learnings about its surroundings in generation N, into the DNA for generation N+1. DNA is just plans for how to wire up the I/O devices. Everything we think we see that seems like "instinct" will turn out to be explained by a combination of the wiring to I/O devices, and early training.

parent dboreham 2 years ago

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