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> all of that "innate knowledge" still fits into under 1 gigabyte of compressed DNA.

Yes, the same way Turing completeness fits in 8bits, which is both perfectly true (see rule 110) and perfectly useless to derive any conclusion about the limitation of innate knowledge.

Similarly, just because you can encode the number Pi in just two bytes (the ASCII for both “p” and “i” letters) it doesn't mean the number contains only two bytes of entropy.



Your comment is completely nonsensical. Are you disagreeing just to disagree?


Applying information theory out of its domain is nonsensical, yes. That's the point.

And for that reason, your argument about 1GB of data makes absolutely no sense at all.


Bullshit. We're talking about information, and were always talking about information.


The problem is that you claim that you can quantify it based on bad use of irrelevant tools.




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