Sure, but that's also for a bacterial cell. We have 50 times as many genes and you can't easily culture humans on a Petri dish for experimentation. A single g

Sure, but that's also for a bacterial cell. We have 50 times as many genes and you can't easily culture humans on a Petri dish for experimentation. A single gene can take years of work to understand. Yes, you can simulate anything if you abstract away enough. But if the goal is a convincing replication, you'll need to include lots of intracellular effects. In the end, I believe that practical simulation of a whole brain that you can have a conversation about its existence with is more difficult than the development of quantum computing powerful enough to break all existing crypto. The work is still interesting, if only because it pushes the limits of what we can do. But I might want to start with an ant brain.