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So, you know, and of course, that's where alpha fold stock kicks in.

So that would be kind of the basis.

And then you'd build these higher level simulations that take those as building blocks.

And then you get the emergent behavior.

I think that's one of the, of course, one of the deepest and most fascinating questions.

I love that area of biology.

There's a great book by Nick Lane, one of the top experts in this area called The 10 Great Inventions of Evolution.

I think it's fantastic.

And it also speaks to what the great filters might be prior or are they ahead of us?

I think they're most likely in the past if you read that book of how unlikely to go have any life at all,

And then single cell to multi-cell seems an unbelievably big jump that took like a billion years, I think, on Earth to do, right?

So it shows you how hard it was.

For a very long time before they captured mitochondria somehow, right?

I don't see why not, why AI couldn't help with that, some kind of simulation.

Again, it's a bit of a search process through a combinatorial space.

Here's like all the, you know, the chemical soup that you start with, the primordial soup that, you know, maybe was on Earth near these hot vents.

Here's some initial conditions.

Can you generate something that looks like a cell?

So perhaps that would be a next stage after the virtual cell project is, well, how could you actually something like that emerge from the chemical soup?

of from non-living to living and it's not a line that it's a continuum that connects physics and chemistry and biology yeah there's no line i mean this is my whole reason why i worked on ai and agi my whole life because i think it can be the ultimate tool to help us answer these kind of questions and i don't really understand why um you know the average person doesn't think like worry about this stuff more like how