> Why wouldn’t it be eventually possible to replicate them in silicon? I mean if you simulate all the chemical processes in some being then yeah probably you g

> Why wouldn’t it be eventually possible to replicate them in silicon? I mean if you simulate all the chemical processes in some being then yeah probably you get close (assuming you get everything right), let’s assume there is no unknown in how the atoms in our bodies interact. Sounds like an expensive project. If you are _not_ talking about a perfect emulation/simulation of such a machine, I will pose your question back to you: why _would_ it be possible to do something we don’t know what it is? Seems rather contrived to say “we can do this thing we don’t know what it is”.