[laughs] So, uh, is there a place where digital twins can solve this? 'Cause I, I still see a lot of people talking about digital twins, and it, it sounds great, but a lot of things sound great.

Well, I think, yes, a lot of things sound great as well.

So let's start there.

This idea of a digital twin, of course, is something that's been floating around for a while, for many years, and, you know, people will often hold this up and say, "You know, we won't need patients," or, "We won't need as many patients.

We'll just use a digital twin in there." And s- this idea is almost entirely wrong-headed, and I'll tell you why.

It's because they've gotten this idea of a digital twin, and they've conflated it with all these other things in there.

So digital twin originally comes from study of industrial processes in there, where you're able to build what is essentially a mechanistic replica of a process in there, and then you can ask questions of it.

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