🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 3, 2015 01:58 PM UTC:
The general idea of self-replicators coming into existence has been
illustrated with the cellular automata program Life. So what you want to do
might be feasible, but I don't have the expertise in chemistry, physics,
or nucleotides to weigh in any further than that. What I can say is that
the evolution of life was a very long process that took much longer than a
human lifetime and happened in an area much larger than a computer. So, to
get results with a computer simulation, you would have to accelerate it or
cut corners. But if it interests you, go ahead and do it. Maybe you'll get
some interesting results.