The Counting Trap

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• Humans are 100 tera-bytes of information.and 100 tera-ops Figure from ROBOT, Hans Moravec, Oxford, 1998, page 58

• So, a super-computer has comparable power.

• Genome is 109 bits

  • 90% junk
  • 90% common to chimpanzees.
  • 90% common among individuals
  • So really only 106 bytes (huh?!)

• We are missing something:

  • Great compression algorithm?
  • Better programming language?
  • Learning?

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