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Re:Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence? by TheOtherHobbes on Friday July 10, 2015 @10:04AM (#9863996)
The information isn't just in the base pairs. It's in the entire evolved ecology (with optional industrial add-on pack) that makes the base pairs do something useful.

How much of that could you take away and still get a human brain?

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Re:Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence? by e_modad on Friday July 10, 2015 @10:11AM (#9864029)
Craig Venter says here[1] that Franz Och (of Google Translate fame) has done some analysis for his new company Human Longevity Inc that shows that about 50% of the genome is responsible for the brain. So the number is quite big and much larger than I would have thought. Excited to see more results from HLI.

Comment at 13:12 [1] https://youtu.be/D3nIIKwwiLc?t=11m43s

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Re:Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence? by bohm on Friday July 10, 2015 @10:34AM (#9864148)
Which is interesting considering we share about 85% of our genome with Zebra Fish.
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Re:Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence? by e_modad on Friday July 10, 2015 @10:52AM (#9864248)
Source? That sounds a little high.
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Re:Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence? by bohm on Friday July 10, 2015 @11:01AM (#9864305)
From memory, but maybe a slight overstatement:

http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/article01036.html

70 per cent of protein-coding human genes are related to genes found in the zebrafish (Danio rerio), and 84 per cent of genes known to be associated with human disease have a zebrafish counterpart.

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