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> If you took a classical bag and filled it with classical locks and classical keys and just shook it around for a while, none of those keys would end up in the locks

I think you are vastly underestimating the number of collisions required to get an enzyme binding event. We did a back of the envelope calculation in grad school and it was something like >> 10^6 ~ 10^9.

And you can of course do macroscopic things like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X6qEE2fHvE

parent dnautics 1 month ago

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