It's not that easy to replace something that arose semi-organically across large swaths of space and time. The whale is dead, and we've been living in its carc

It's not that easy to replace something that arose semi-organically across large swaths of space and time. The whale is dead, and we've been living in its carcass for the last 200 years. Can you build a replacement whale whole cloth? Do you understand what all the little fiddly bits do, and why they're there? It sounds hard