I'm not sure how you can claim "reflexes that involve two or three neurons" are state of the art or that OpenWorm "can't seem to get past preliminary phases". N

I'm not sure how you can claim "reflexes that involve two or three neurons" are state of the art or that OpenWorm "can't seem to get past preliminary phases". Neither http://www.openworm.org/science.html http://www.openworm.org/science.html nor http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/7985-a-worms-mind-in-a-lego-body.html http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligenc... look like a preliminary phase to me. That's a system of more than 300 neurons, fully mapped, simulated and working, both virtually and hooked up to real sensors and actuators.