The shape of your face, and much else besides, will be affected by random chance and environmental influences during the process of development and growth.
The shape of your face will not be affected much by random chance and environmental influences. See: identical twins (including adopted apart).
Solid point. I realise I was unclear that for face shape I had in mind external influences in utero (while the bones of the face are growing into place in the fetus). Which would at least be a somewhat shared environment between twins. But nonetheless, changing my mind in real-time, because I would have expected more difference from one side of a womb to the other than we actually see between twins.
Even if I’m mistaken about faces though, I don’t think I’m wrong about brains, or humans in general.
Yeah, bad example. Nonetheless, an adult human brain cannot be recreated solely from its genetic code, just as documents written using Microsoft Word cannot be recreated solely from the source code of Microsoft Word and an LLM cannot be recreated without training data. Most of the article falls apart because comparing source code size (uncompressed, note) to genome size tells us very little about the relative complexity of software and living organisms.
Your brain probably is the most complex thing in the room, with ~86 billion neurons, each of which has a lot of state that matters.
The shape of your face will not be affected much by random chance and environmental influences. See: identical twins (including adopted apart).
Solid point. I realise I was unclear that for face shape I had in mind external influences in utero (while the bones of the face are growing into place in the fetus). Which would at least be a somewhat shared environment between twins. But nonetheless, changing my mind in real-time, because I would have expected more difference from one side of a womb to the other than we actually see between twins.
Even if I’m mistaken about faces though, I don’t think I’m wrong about brains, or humans in general.
Yeah, bad example. Nonetheless, an adult human brain cannot be recreated solely from its genetic code, just as documents written using Microsoft Word cannot be recreated solely from the source code of Microsoft Word and an LLM cannot be recreated without training data. Most of the article falls apart because comparing source code size (uncompressed, note) to genome size tells us very little about the relative complexity of software and living organisms.
Your brain probably is the most complex thing in the room, with ~86 billion neurons, each of which has a lot of state that matters.