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If it was just a matter of horsepower we could perfectly simulate animals with simpler brains already.
by Darvon 6y ago
If it was just a matter of horsepower we could perfectly simulate animals with simpler brains already.
- hprotagonist 6y ago"why does OpenWorm need a distributed supercomputer when the thing it's simulating needs about 10 millicalories a day" is one of those category of questions people don't like thinking about too much.
- anotheryou 6y agoAre you sure the bulk of it is not emulating physics and environment? I mean how many resources can you even throw at "302 neurons and 95 muscle cells"? edit: down the wormhole I go just look at the screenshots of the "brain": https://github.com/openworm/c302 https://github.com/openworm/c302 and the sim: https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/blob/master/README.md#quickstart https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/blob/master/README.md#q... Reading further, more physics: > Some simulators enable ion channel dynamics to be included and enable neurons to be described in detail in space (multi-compartmental models), while others ignore ion channels and treat neurons as points connected directly to other neurons. In OpenWorm, we focus on multi-compartmental neuron models with ion channels.