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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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So they’ve built a model of an organism simple enough to be mimicked by a robot and a small onboard computer. That is a nice animated model. It is not alive.
More precisely: does it eat, metabolize and eliminate waste, and reproduce? What is new about a mechanized robot?
I saw that movie Transcendence last week. It got terrible reviews - I don’t know why, I thought it was pretty good. I thought it was quite interesting how a super intelligence may work, creating and using nanobots
When I heard “worm” I didn’t think of Obama. I thought of RINO Boehner. Spineless worm.
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Funny, the fish aren’t bitin’.
No, you created a program that would mimic the actions of a worm and it mimicked the actions of a worm.
That is no more life then a clock going "tick-tock".
Except for....
You mean like.....city people?
Exactly.
I think we forgot Bender here LOL!
This is a very misleading article. Abiogenesis studies the beginnings of life. Imprinting a worm on a computer brain, while impressive, hasn’t anything to do with the original “spark of life” and neither endeavor speaks to evolution which does not deal with ultimate origins but rather deals with changes in organisms.
I thank you... 
Seven--
And Amy really, really... 
thanks you!
Worm brains are too complex. They should have digitized the brain of a Ferguson protester.
Bender bagged Amy? I must have missed that one. Lucky Bender.
that is not creating life!
to create life you must take something non living and make it come alive.
Gadzooks, fhayek-- She is the lucky one... 
as there are so many women and so little time!
BTW you can live vicariously through me banging Amy in episode "Proposition Infinity" originally aired July 8, 2010.
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