Ah yes, I dreamed about doing something like this, just with even more details ages ago, but concluded, I won't get even close to what I want, without having a big team at disposal and a supercomputer and/or a couple of universities collaborating interdisciplinary. But so far I was buisy with other things and reading about his experience unsurprisingly kind of confirms the challenge there is - mainly performance. But GPUs are on the rise and I am optimistic for the future. If the AI bubble bursts, I suppose lots of cheap GPU power will be avaiable for experiments like these and more elaborate ones. And if not, compute power/money will likely rise anyway.