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The only insights will be related to what insights we get about the programming we are doing with machines. It is an entirely different order to providing insights into even the simplest of organic neurological systems.

Computer simulations can give insight into simple systems like water flows, etc. Simulating more complex systems like a single living cells or any system built on livings cells would require systems that would not really be worth building. It would be simpler to use cells directly.