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.
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.