| ▲ | qingcharles 2 hours ago | |||||||
At some point in the future would it be possible to simply download a DNA sequence of an entire animal as a "ROM" and boot it into a virtual "reality"? What detail level of reality would we have to emulate for an egg to grow into an adult animal? | ||||||||
| ▲ | Leynos an hour ago | parent [-] | |||||||
To give you a sense of the computation needed, a spatiotemporal physics simulation of a minimal (493 gene) bacterium's full 105 minute cellular cycle took 4-6 days of GPU hours on two A100s. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742... Compare this with a c elegens nematode: ~20000 protein coding genes and 959 cells, with all the extra machinery you'll find in a eukaryotic cell. I'm reading this as both a question of raw simulation surface and combinatorics. | ||||||||
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