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Re:Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence? by ridgeguy on Friday July 10, 2015 @12:13PM (#9864797)
I think the DNA does contain instructions for making the egg.

For example, if executing the DNA instructions produces a human female, she'll be born with a lifetime supply of eggs, the developmental instructions for which were part of her startup DNA. Those instructions were definitely not part of the "cell soup", as is shown by mitochondrial donation assisted reproduction technology (aka 'three-parent babies').

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Re:Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence? by JoeAltmaier on Friday July 10, 2015 @12:31PM (#9864963)
The egg made the eggs. The DNA said "make an egg". That's the idea. Like a paper tape that you feed into a factory, with one punch, labeled "Man/Mouse". Punch 'Man' and feed it in, and the factory makes a man. So, a man is encoded in one bit? No.

Cells are factories, incredibly complex ones. DNA is a set of punches in a tape.

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