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> Has anyone actually tried to boot up an artificial brain derived from a real organism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O
by thg 9y ago
> Has anyone actually tried to boot up an artificial brain derived from a real organism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm
- noetic_techy 9y agoI've heard of this and have been eagerly anticipating some results. I'd like to see it trained to do something unique, uploaded, and that some behavior arise in the uploaded version. I'm not totally against consciousness arising from sufficient complexity, but I've yet to see it proven. And then there are the normal people walking around with almost NO brain... http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/the-medical-mystery-of-a-man-living-with-90-of-his-brain-missing http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/the-medical-mystery-of-a-man...
- taneq 9y agoOpenWorm isn't a process for uploading a specific biological worm. It's a connectome for a generic C. elegans worm. Apparently they're all (more or less) the same.