The boundary between natural processes and computation
I have been having a troubling thought for quite a while, especially due to all the hype around AI. The rough question that had been on my mind was "How does nature or evolution pass down enough genetic information to recreate humans? " . More specifically, how does nature compress enough information in the genes in the gametes to recreate neural connection in a brain without specifying all of the parameters? For a reference, a gamete carries roughly 3 billion base pairs. Each base pairs encode binary information. Therefore, total information in terms of bits would be 3 billion * 2 = 6 billion bits ~= 0.75 GB of information. So, a fusion of male and female gametes should contain twice the information ~ 1.5 GB. Whereas a human brain is estimated to have around 85 billion neurons, with 100 trillion of synapses. But how is this possible? What kind of compression is the nature really doing here? I asked this question alot, and the most frequent answer I used to get was " evo...
