On 8/31/2014 9:36 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 12:24:37PM +1200, LizR wrote:
As per what I was saying about Watson (or whatever it's called), the baby
needs to be immersed in an environment in order to develop any form of
consciousness beyond the rudimentary raw feels provided by nature - that
is, it needs to be educated by interaction with the environment, and with
other people (i.e. assimilate culture).
This actually supplies a good reason for why we should find ourselves
in a regular, lawlike universe. We can get by with a smaller genome,
and learn the rest of the stuff that makes up our mental life, which
is a more likely scenario (even evolutionary speaking) than having a
large genome directly encoding our knowledge.
Of course, that is only possible if in fact the environment is regular
enough to be learnable.
So that's why Amoeba dubia has a genome 200x bigger than ours? It must live in a very
irregular environment.
Brent
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