This project seems a bit funny to me. Cell level simulation is the current bottleneck of the project, why would we not start at the cellular level, and then move up to multicellular organisms? Of course this ultimately leads to the question, can we truly simulate anything if we can’t simulate at the quantum level?(at scale) It would be quite profound to find out that we can fully simulate complex life while abstracting the lower levels, if that were the case, maybe we don’t need them either! Good riddance to all those quantum conundrums (;
I think the assumption is some abstractions aren't leaky.
The abstractions are fictional. The system wasn’t “designed” with separation. We just pretend they are there for tractability.
Certainly this isn't true at every level of granularity unless you're making some Penrosian claim about QM affecting say, one's decision tree? Which is a valid though quite disputed claim, say more about that if you believe it though.
Why not?
“~= 0” just means we likely will be unable to measure any effect. Not that there literally is no effect.
Us being unable to do science on something means we cannot scientifically state that it does not exist. Not that we can categorically state that it does not exist.