“You would need to model the whole organism, and that seems very hard.”
There are only ~100 muscle cells. People are trying to model the the brain-body combination, but that doesn’t sound unreasonably hard to me.
You need more than just muscle cells to do a whole-body emulation here—c, elegans has roughly 1000 cells all told (varies depending on sex; hermaphrodites have somewhat fewer, males somewhat more).
“You would need to model the whole organism, and that seems very hard.”
There are only ~100 muscle cells. People are trying to model the the brain-body combination, but that doesn’t sound unreasonably hard to me.
You need more than just muscle cells to do a whole-body emulation here—c, elegans has roughly 1000 cells all told (varies depending on sex; hermaphrodites have somewhat fewer, males somewhat more).