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VIRTUAL YOU - PETER COVENEY ROGER HIGHFIELD GEB...

This book describes the revolutionary efforts underway to build virtual humans - from cells and
organs to whole bodies and populations. Virtual human technology has extraordinary potential 
but also poses enormous computational challenges. Digital doppelgèangers of patients will be
able to usher in an era of truly personalized medicine  in which virtual drug trials can be
conducted on thousands of digital twins  and health-casts can give you an idea of what a change
in diet and lifestyle would really mean for you. Your virtual you will change your healthcare
and potentially extend your lifespan (while also raising philosophical and ethical questions).
However  numerous challenges and problems need to be solved to build such virtual versions of
humans and to make truly personalized and predictive medicine possible. These challenges
largely reside in the domains of the computer and physical sciences  and they are the real
focus of this book. Building a virtual you touches on a wide range of deep scientific issues:
how detailed the models need to be  what is currently possible to model  the problems inherent
to simulating chaos and complexity  how to stitch together different kinds of mathematical
models  the need for the realization of new forms of computing  such as quantum computation 
and how all this relates to the limits of what we can simulate digitally and the future of
computer modeling. The book ends on a provocative note  claiming that although we will be able
to go far with next generation exascale and quantum computers  we will need to return to the
technology of analog machines in order to simulate the complexity of the human body and perhaps
harness the properties of special metamaterials to solve equations by manipulating beams of
light--

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