On: Mammals dream about the world they are about to ex...

[pciexpgpu]

Really fascinating. Does this mean the world "view" is encoded into the DNA somehow and that then gets transformed into neural activity? How could a few billion pairs of acids encode such a world?

What's even more fascinating is that emotions, behaviors, imagination and dreams must all be encoded and not learnt with just a billion-odd pairs / bits.

Meanwhile, it takes a few megabytes for us humans to encode a decent Hello World program in a modern programming environment.

[smegger001 → pciexpgpu]

complex emergent behaviors from simple rule systems is quiet common.

conways game of life is derived from 4 simple rules yet shows complex behavior including the ability to operate a universal turring machine.

a few hundred megs of instructions seems quiet reasonably able to generate a highly complex system

[anthk → smegger001]

You can play Tetris on GNU sed. You can play Zork on a PostScript interpreter by simulating the ZMachine on PS.

[yreg → pciexpgpu]

The dreaming doesn't simulate a complex world. As I understand it, it might be something like a simple blob moving around in 2D space.

[l33tman → pciexpgpu]

It's just expanding circular waves of activity on the retina. Don't read too much into the articles clickbait headline :)