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According to wikipedia (http://bit.ly/SLQDiT http://bit.ly/SLQDiT) there are between 215 and 411 different cell types in the human body. I would expect each of
by technotony 14y ago
According to wikipedia (http://bit.ly/SLQDiT http://bit.ly/SLQDiT) there are between 215 and 411 different cell types in the human body. I would expect each of those different cell types to behave similarly (maybe one order of magnitude difference to account for environmental effects around the specific cell). This means we should be able to do a human simulation much sooner than 80 years.
- riffic 14y agowhy are you using URL shortening? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distinct_cell_types_in_the_adult_human_body http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distinct_cell_types_in_... is better.
- joe_the_user 14y agoIt is an extraordinarily interesting question. Having multiple sets of same cell would only speed up the simulation under some circumstances. In the most general case, it wouldn't. For example, if a cell itself is a Turing complete computer whose computations matter, then you definitely need to individually simulate each cell.