> The problem is that once you start to appreciate the immense complexity in a single, most basic cell, you realize how far away we are from understanding how l

> The problem is that once you start to appreciate the immense complexity in a single, most basic cell, you realize how far away we are from understanding how life got started. And we have massive issues with simulating single molecule interactions or protein folding. We are nowhere near simulating a single cell without all its external interactions. Not even remotely close. The field of molecular simulation is holistically based on shortcuts and abstractions to make something out of that research funding. Supercomputers are crunching away at massively simplified models. And even if we had single cells working a whole new world of complexity opens up next. Interactions with other cells and even worse, the environment where everything from pH over temperature to pressure and light has to be considered.