> And while I'm totally an armchair scientist here, what comes to mind immediately is that the resources needed to describe such a system analytically would gro

> And while I'm totally an armchair scientist here, what comes to mind immediately is that the resources needed to describe such a system analytically would grow exponentially with a very high value of that exponent. Yes, this relates precisely to Stephen Wolfram's notions on "computational irreducibility." For humans, it is an impossible project. For machines, it is perhaps possible, but we humans would not comprehend it.