> say if N DNA pairs can be theoretically shown to only encode a pattern of "blah" complexity (time/space) regardless of future protein interactions I don't t

> say if N DNA pairs can be theoretically shown to only encode a pattern of "blah" complexity (time/space) regardless of future protein interactions I don't think it's going to end up this simple. You're going to end up in the Godelian trap with this one. Consider how simple a Turing machine is, or a tiny cellular atomaton, and yet there's no limit to the complexity that they can produce chaotically from any established starting position. The fundamental laws are going to come from simulating what the DNA does in practice, like running code in an emulator. It needs to be 'decompiled' and 'decompressed', in a sense; our current approach is like trying to understand why a REST endpoint gives a certain response by staring at gates within the processor. It might be doable but it's not going to be the most fruitful approach.