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  • Are we on the brink of creating artificial life? .....

    11/27/2014 8:59:53 AM PST · by GrandJediMasterYoda · 49 replies
    dailymail.co.uk ^ | 11/27/14 | By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN
    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...