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Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95

Mind & Matter

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The Complexity of Your Brain and My Brain

The number of genes that are necessary to build a mouse brain is roughly the size of the last digit of your little finger. The complexity of your brain and my brain is orders and orders of magnitude larger, yet the information that sets it up is essentially the same in magnitude. So this is, again, an example of building constraints upon constraints upon constraints.

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