I stopped reading the article after a few sentences, so thank you for the summary. What's funny is that we've shown time and again that we have ways to model e

I stopped reading the article after a few sentences, so thank you for the summary. What's funny is that we've shown time and again that we have ways to model emergent complexity and even have generalized predictive ability. Turing's reaction diffusion is a perfect example of that. In my experience modelling using "agents" that interact, and then having absolutely enormous scale, often demonstrates emergent properties that greatly resemble those of biological systems- which isn't totally surprising, given how biological systems work.