Posted on 11/27/2014 8:59:53 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Are we on the brink of creating artificial life? Scientists digitise the brain of a WORM and place it inside a robot
The OpenWorm global project is making a 'digital' worm
Their project is recreating the neurons and cells in C. elegans It is the simplest organism we know of but has similarities to humans By making a digital worm the team hope to create artificial life They have implanted the digital 'mind' of the worm into a Lego machine In a video it acts and behaves just like the worm would in the real world Next year the team will allow people to download their own digital worm By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN FOR MAILONLINE
With 100 billion neurons and 37 trillion cells, the human body is simply too complex to be artificially designed by modern computers. But in the quest to create artificial life, what if we started a lot smaller? That’s what team of scientists has done, creating a replica of the simplest form of life we know. The worm Caenorhabditis elegans has just 300 neurons and around 1,000 cells - and now a robot has been created that mimics the actions of this simple organism.
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I thought it was a good movie as well.
The book I referenced had some “far out there” thoughts, but one thing that was kind of eerie, what if intelligence was created, how long until it could program itself to be come a super intelligence? If it did. it would need raw material to continue its growth (i.e., energy) and how long before we humans are simply looked at as additional “material”. Like I said, far out there, but given a long enough time line, I don’t think the human race as it stands today will be around “tomorrow”. I think we will also “transcend” into other forms as technology advances and deep stellar space travel is warranted.
They tried once but it split.....
In 2009, a robotics experiment “evolved” robots that learned to lie and cheat.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/evolving-robots-learn-lie-hide-resources-each-other
The actions of a living entity are goal directed with an end of its own, self generated, and conditional. It is also a self regulating integration of components.
If it’s artificial, it’s not life. If it’s life, it’s not artificial.
A simulation of life, in a computer program or a robot, does not constitute life.
I forget the scientific definition for life but it was something like “A self sustaining system” which is a pretty weird definition because I know a hell of a lot of people who aren’t self sustaining especially the Democrat voter base.
I don't know about that. It's used to a body with no backbone, but the poor thing has to figure out how to operate a body with no muscle either. That's a challenge for any brain.
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