Originally Posted by rsaavedra
The differences in amount of "non-junk" might not be a good measure of the difference in complexity between the non-junks.
Yes, but that information must come from somewhere. As I've noted, the extra information for multicellular complexity is largely environmental feedback guided by the genetic differences. One more line of evidence: protists are single-celled yet are still eukaryotes like multicellular organisms. Though single-celled, they are much closer to us phylogenetically than they are to bacteria or archaea.
Think of this analogy: a fractal is infinitely complex but in the end can be compressed to a simple formula (of course, there are no true fractals in the real universe since space/time are not infinitely differentiable and so you can't have a physical equivalent of infinitely precise real numbers; they are just in our mathematical imagination).