OTOH the amount of "information" needed to perfectly simulate a cell is probably unbounded. Just a corollary of the fact that we currently don't know how to perfectly simulate reality.
This is a very good point. The 'information' in a cell isn't the base pairs in its DNA, but all the atoms that make up the whole cell. And then each atom encapsulates properties such as position, velocity, charge, van der Waals radius etc.
However this considers atoms with classical mechanics. In a quantum mechanical representation it would be very different again and you can start asking really hairy questions about whether information can be created or destroyed.
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This is a very good point. The 'information' in a cell isn't the base pairs in its DNA, but all the atoms that make up the whole cell. And then each atom encapsulates properties such as position, velocity, charge, van der Waals radius etc.
However this considers atoms with classical mechanics. In a quantum mechanical representation it would be very different again and you can start asking really hairy questions about whether information can be created or destroyed.